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Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers...

The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now adapted for young readers.The history of American labor...

  The Watts Uprising & The 1960s — In August 1965 the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following...

  From the New York Times-bestselling author of All Boys Aren't Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance. In Flamboyants,...

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary ClintonThe four most powerful African American women in politics share the story...

NPR investigative journalist and the daughter of a Tuskegee Airman, Cheryl W. Thompson explores the stories of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen – the Black pilots...

A choral history of African Americans covering four hundred years in the voices of ninety writers, edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to...

An estimated one-third of all American adults eats something from at a fast-food restaurant every day. Millions start their mornings with paper-wrapped English muffin breakfast...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader. Here in...

Gather the midnight strands,tend the roots that gave you life,weave hopes into pathways--paths that lead you home.Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and...

Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement.   Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white...

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have...

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism Black rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have...

Futuring Black Lives is a historical ethnography examining Black institution builders in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their work to leverage the power of...

A bold manifesto arguing that reparations is the answer to America’s original sin of slavery and offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal,...

The first feature article that Parks both wrote and photographed is reassembled through previously unseen images, contact sheets, ephemeral material and Parks’ original manuscriptIn 1953,...

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...

- Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction- A New York Times Notable Book- A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of...

Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about Harriet Tubman! It's the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers--as well...

This illuminating graphic novel biography about Harriet Tubman sheds new light on one of American history's bravest heroes. ​Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across...

From King Kong to Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. This book offers...