Non-Fiction

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the crisis so white? Some argued that skyrocketing overdoses...

Dream Merchant of the Perfect Game: The Life and Legacy of Frank "Doc" Sykes is the story of a dedicated medical professional, an extraordinary athlete, and a courageous human rights advocate.Taking the stand in the Scottsboro Boys trials, Sykes's...

Winner of the 23rd annual PoulinPrize Chaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory thatcelebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban...

This is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else, you would scream / if you weren't caught up in the chorus.Leaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen, UNMET is a...

From Charlamagne Tha God, host of the morning radio phenomenon The Breakfast Club, and founder and CEO of iHeartRadio's Black Effect Podcast Network, a rundown on how small talk from small minds have taken over our world, and the BIG conversations needed...

Winner of the 23rd annualA. Poulin, Jr. Poetry PrizeChaun Ballard's gripping debut collection weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory thatcelebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural...

Janae Johnson's debut poetry collection explores the notion of being tenderheaded, going beyond Black hair to explore the ways we mask pain.Originally inspired by women's basketball, the book evolves into a poignant coming-of-age narrative centered...

SOUTHERN MIGRANT MIXTAPE relays the experiences and observations of a black, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind in the regions where he initially experienced them. Plunge heart first into this emotive...

SON OF BYFORD is a meandering mining of meaning from the memory of many middle passages. This collection refracts 1970's shades of Black and blues that give way to hip hop, postmillennium tensions, and godless queer queryings, informed by love,...

Rooted in a legacy of social movements for change, East Oakland youth and students from Urban Promise Academy in the Fruitvale district have created a social justice club known as Warriors for Justice. Over the last five years, they have compiled...

There is a rhythmic rapidity to Uche Nduka's SCISSORWORK, the work of relentlessly cutting at the barrage of sensory data coming at us, leaving the syntax between dense blocks of text and epigrammatic and occasionally even whimsical poems, like paper...