Collection: Products

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely...

  This bounce-to-the-beat picture book by America’s favorite rapping teacher from Chicago is a tribute to the sights and sounds of a city neighborhood and...

A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife   We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to...

A compact introduction to Cauleen Smith's experimental, imaginative films incorporating science fiction, Afrofuturism and contemporary Chicago culture Since making her first feature while a student...

A brilliant literary memoir of chosen family and chosen heritage, told against the backdrop of Chicago’s North and South Sides As a multiracial household in...

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 comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into...

In Feels Right Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city....

“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and...

An extraordinary crime novel from a rising star, that follows the ripple effects of a tragic shooting throughout a Chicago community from the view of...

'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...

Inspired by The Wiz, this debut, full-length poetry collection celebrates South Side Chicago and a Black woman's quest for self-discovery--one that pulls her away from the...

All Aboard! The sequel to Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek has pulled into the station! From the award-winning author of the best-selling Tristan Strong trilogy comes...

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...

Even when we lose it all, we find the strength to rebuild. Felicia "Fe Fe" Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older...

A Black couple leaves their downtown Chicago condo for a new suburban subdivision, only to find themselves at the center of a maelstrom in this...

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet aja monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with...

An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires....

“Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story.” — Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the RoadThe Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor...

A debut graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Bianca Xunise. "Stole my heart from the first page to the last. Endlessly funny...

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She described how the police pulled her...

The anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller featuring escapist romance and a wealthy Black family in 1910s Chicago   Like the blazing Chicago sun,...