Photography

An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Unshuttered: Poems is the vessel for poetic personae and a selection of antique photographs of Black Americans, which Patricia Smith has collected over the course of...

Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train, a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion. From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this...

The definitive collection of Leonard Freed's seminal and timely 1968 civil rights photo-essay, in a fresh and expanded editionA Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick In 1961, Leonard Freed was on assignment in Berlin. He photographed a Black...

A nuanced profile, in image and text, of the great Black Power leader at the exhilarating moment of the movement's ascendancyGordon Parks' 1967 Life magazine essay "Whip of Black Power" is a nuanced profile of the young, controversial civil rights leader...

African Americans have contributed greatly to the history of American agriculture. One of its most compelling stories is the New Farmers of America (NFA), which was a national organization of Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture in the public...

Congolese fiction and memoir writers, and everyday voices revisit the photographic archives of the colonial CongoWith contributions from celebrated authors such as Sinzo Aanza, Jean Bofane and Annie Lulu, e.a.Based upon the extensive research of the...

In 1957, New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic spent time with the iconic singer Billie Holiday during a week-long run of performances at the Newark, New Jersey, nightclub Sugar Hill. The resulting images offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Billie...

Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its early days in Baltimore, Maryland up to the present-day. The riveting images in No Justice, No Peace provide a...

Written as a tribute to her father, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Makaziwe Mandela provides one of the most intimate portraits to date, revealing the man behind the anti-apartheid movement that changed the world. Named one of Time magazine's most important people...

African Americans have lived in Boyle County, Kentucky, since the first settlement of the area in 1775. Mostly enslaved, by the Civil War, the county had one of the largest population of free Blacks in the area with the exception of Jefferson and Fayette...

Newly discovered archive of photographer and Oakland native Jeffrey Henson containing origin story photos of the emergence of the Black Panther Party in the 60s; rare and intimate portraits of the movement's leaders in action and in repose, featuring...

A SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF IMAGES AND WORDS THAT OFFER A DETAILED GLIMPSE INTO THE UNIQUE BEAUTY AND RHYTHM OF AFRICA'S NATURAL WONDER. Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent's highest mountain and the world's tallest freestanding mountain. It is a...