Non-Fiction

A Haitian-born, Boston-based poet explores the personal and political stories of the Haitians who were part of Congo's 1960s decolonization movement Between 1960 and 1975, thousands of Haitian professionals emigrated to Congo, a fellow Black francophone...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project...

In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero...

The remarkable legacy of Carl Murphy, the acclaimed publisher of the AFRO-American newspaper, will remind you to always find your solace and strength in God. Fifty of Murphy's prayers, along with other proverbs and words of wisdom, have been lovingly...

This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender and working-class studies. African American children's poetry reveals legacies of segregation, the Great Migration north,...

A unique and wonderful mindfulness and meditation book to help families tap in to this superpower Relax your mind and heart. Take a deep, calm breath. Teaching children about the roots of meditation in African culture, this soothing illustrated manual...

This unique book, by a man who has chosen to "dress plain," describes the history and use of hats, bonnets, dresses, overcoats, and other articles of clothing used by the various religious groups who wear plain garb. This is the first comprehensive book...

"These are poems of deep thought, passionate engagement, and often searing images." --Toronto Star (on Each One a Furnace) A poetic exploration of the cyclical philosophy of dismantling and remaking, Unravel is a moving and inventive rove through what...

The first book to focus on experimental artist and designer Robert Paige Robert Earl Paige is one of the most iconic artists and designers from Chicago's South Side. A multidisciplinary artist and arts educator, he works across textile design, painting,...

James Baldwin, author and civil rights activist, stated that to be Black in America and relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time. In this audacious debut poetry collection, The Horizon Never Forgets, Steven Moore offers us...

"This Maileresque combination of personal reflection, boxing analysis, and sports biography is a must read for fight fans...." Booklist, Starred ReviewAn intimate portrait of Joe Frazier, whose ferocious rivalry with Muhammad Ali made them both boxing...

Scattered Pictures is a hot and spicy, romp-around-romance album that freely spills the tea on dating. Curated extensively during the COVID-19 world pandemic, this album presents a crisp and queer perspective on human interactions that are...

Proprioception tastes of a feral urgency to time, to presence, a need. The poems move through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age--trying to...

When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American...

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities "Deeply and impressively researched. . . . Ms. Mooney pieces together a narrative with an arc so tight and clean that it's a wonder it actually happened. . . . It reads, in other...

Forever in the Path: The Black Experience at Michigan State University offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at America's first agricultural college from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. In exploring the personalities, important...