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Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a...

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took...

A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new...

A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance—written by her great-granddaughter.Dubbed the...

Blue skies, empty land--and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from...

This inspiring historical picture book based on the childhood of Lucy Tolliver, the mother of Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts, and written by her siblings, Sally-Ann Roberts...

  Mules & Men is a treasury of Black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons,...

Langston Hughes's debut novel, a moving portrait of African American family life in 1930s Kansas, newly reissued for Union Square & Co.'s Herald Classics line....

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbinding historical fantasy set at the crossroads of race and power in America. It is...

As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora...

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism   In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the...

  The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators The Mis-education of...

We have to-morrowBright before usLike a flame The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic...

A Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to save the world in this extraordinarily affecting novel...

A Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to save the world in this extraordinarily affecting novel...

For fans of Colson Whitehead and Wild Women and the Blues, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of midcentury Harlem, and one...

Narrated by twelve-year-old Cato, this intense and evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black...

Inspired by real-life legendary choreographer Katherine Dunham’s groundbreaking expedition into the heart of Caribbean dance culture, this uniquely captivating novel imagines the experiences of three...

When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with...