Non-Fiction

Kardea Brown, the breakout star of Food Network's hit show Delicious Miss Brown celebrates the Gullah/Geechee culinary traditions of her family in this spectacular cookbook featuring 125 original mouthwatering recipes and gorgeous four-color photos. The...

This unforgettable and "beautifully written" (The Seattle Times) memoir explores first love, unthinkable loss, and the toll of grief. Kareem Rosser and Lee Lee Jones were young, beautiful, and deeply in love. Their love was a real-world romance that...

For nearly fifty years, Mama Dip's Kitchen wasn't just one of Chapel Hill, North Carolina's most beloved restaurants--it was an institution. In 1976, with just $64 and a lifetime of kitchen wisdom, Mildred "Mama Dip" Council opened the doors to a...

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016...

An African Introduction to the New Testament, written by a wide array of scholars from across Africa, is the first of its kind to engage every book in the New Testament from the African context. Each of the chapters offers a thematic engagement of the...

A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton's experiments with text and image. It's here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a...

A heartfelt return to form for veteran poet r.h. Sin, She Outgrew the Wound speaks softly to the resiliency of growth, maturity, and life-altering self-love. For over 10 years, poet r.h. Sin has provided a generation of young lovers with the words to...

In The Seven Wonders of Stevie: Kwansabas, award-winning author Ran Walker pays homage to the musical brilliance and cultural legacy of Stevie Wonder through the disciplined elegance of kwansabas, a poetic form created by Dr. Eugene B. Redmond and rooted...

Lolita Stewart-White's black frag/ments is a breathtaking series of narrative-lyric poems about the fragmentation of the Black body, family, and community facilitated by the historic and ongoing racism in the US healthcare system.After her husband's...

From the author of the "daring, urgent, and transformative" (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) Black Magic, a timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America...

The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential--and a vision for the work ahead to optimize human flourishing in the twenty-first century...

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourseWashington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community, despite often being overshadowed by...