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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy...

Lee "Scratch" Perry: a genius? A madman? A mystic man? There can be no doubt that he is one of the most consequential figures in...

This definitive study of the 1980s Jamaican Dancehall scene features hundreds of exclusive photographs and an accompanying text that capture a vibrant, globally influential and...

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple...

Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do...

A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of...

Easy Rawlins' latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and risk, from "master of the genre," (Washington...

A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. In this...

  Includes a new foreward by Saidya Hartman Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A...

Album sleeve art from a transformative era in America's radical jazz culture, plus covers for recordings by Black poets, civil rights activists and experimental musicians...

Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in African American music. Psychedelia...

Parks' impactful images from the forefront of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' Born Black was the first book to...

A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s The youth uprising now simply known as the...

'I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I...

A previously unseen trove of Kenyan studio portraits, expressing a photographer's vision and a city's lively identity When the Kenyan-born photographer N.V. Parekh opened his...

A rich examination of the role of portrait photography in the construction of Africa as a political idea   At a moment of profound change...

Photo albums from the archives of the iconic chronicler of New York's 1980s rap, hip-hop and Black culture The influential Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz has...

Superb photographs documenting the people, places and activist movements in apartheid-era South Africa   American photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe's understanding of race and class was shaped...

JIMI is the ultimate tribute to the greatest guitar player in rock and roll history, celebrating what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday on...

Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios). Recorded at the Coltrane Studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970...

  An archival dive with fresh interpretations of the legendary New York gallery and cultural laboratory that catalyzed collaboration among Black artists and their counterparts...