Non-Fiction

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A glorious chronicle of a life like none other--enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering--and a testament to the world-changing power of Black motherhood "A beautiful and brave story of strong women,...

Winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. Unfolding in three movements--Le D?but, Le Pass?, and Le Pr?sent--all...

Len Lawson's remarkable poetry collection New Names for Stars is a journey and a companion for that journey, exploring Afrofuturism, superheroes, mental health, social justice, and beyond, with narratives ranging from personal to universal. At one...

In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey of discovery, Jones Royster weaves and reweaves data...

From a preeminent King scholar, the origin story of the man, minister, and civil rights hero who would lead the nation and change the world.We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became, but who was he at the beginning of his life? How did his youth inform...

Interweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists,...

An unprecedented, no-holds-barred set of dialogues about race and education from two of the country's best-known educatorsIn this powerful and deeply personal volume, two luminary educators, generations apart but united by a shared commitment to...

Is Christianity really a white man's religion? Is it any good for Black people? Can a faith once used to enslave also empower Black lives?In The Gospel and My Black Skin, Dr. JP Foster boldly tackles the complex, often unspoken questions many Black...

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998!"Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures."--Gloria NaylorIn celebration of the 250th...

"When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement." -- New York TimesIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,...

What does it cost to build a life without losing yourself along the way? When entrepreneur and mother, Kettia Ming is pulled into a high-stakes legal battle, the fallout reaches far beyond her business. It threatens her family, her sense of safety, and...

What does it cost to build a life without losing yourself along the way? When entrepreneur and mother, Kettia Ming is pulled into a high-stakes legal battle, the fallout reaches far beyond her business. It threatens her family, her sense of safety, and...