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The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black. So black that it's a source of shame...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about...

  Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer...

A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy. Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read“50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years” —EssenceRenowned hip-hop artist, political...

  A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." ― Adrienne...

  From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work!  “Nikki Giovanni is one of our national...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker's iconic modern classic, now in a beautiful 40th anniversary Penguin Vitae edition with...

Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia...

A canvas tote bag celebrating Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel of two sisters' triumph in the face of significant adversity in 1930s southern Georgia....

This volume brings together the complete fiction of the author of Passing and Quicksand, one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her short but...

When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a "biblical prophet" (Time). Lasch's identification of narcissism as not only an...

Delectable Creole recipes from the legendary restaurant menu and the personal files of its mastermind founder. Leah Chase spices her cookbook with stories that reflect...

"...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as...

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by...

This pioneering and pathbreaking book brings together the rich spirituality of Black literary giants with the profound spirituality of the Buddhist tradition. Never before have...

  A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement....

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual...

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, now as a new Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction SpecialA Penguin Classic HardcoverFirst published...

"The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them--communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time."--Emma...

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's hundredth-year anniversary, uncovering the condition of being Black in America. Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays...

In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world...