Collection: Antiracism

The first biography of a controversial, iconoclastic architect of Black Studies, from a leading scholar of the Black intellectual tradition   In the 1960s and...

The literature of the civil rights movement is replete with stories about the major actors in the movement, including, for example, Martin Luther King, but...

MacArthur-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that white supremacy has shaped every aspect of the American immigration regime in this nuanced and powerful new book....

Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place...

Memoir by American Book Award winner Judy Juanita.  California Fever Dream chronicles Juanita's 60 years as a writer and activist. Judy Juanita is an award-winning poet,...

One Black woman's transformative journey of running through grief In the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided, at age...

New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenAmerica, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's...

A girl learns how the history of redlining has affected her neighborhood in this intergenerational picture book about racism, community action, and resilience by two New...

Explore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between...

A New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm...

There is a long history of sororities such as Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) and Delta Sigma Theta (Delta) participating in activism and social justice efforts--from...

This volume presents the first visual history of the people and organizations that led the fight for change during the civil rights era in Los...

A powerful biography of the influential civil rights leader and multitalented musician Coretta Scott King, with illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Cozbi A. Cabrera. Young...

A special commemorative box set featuring six of Dr. Martin Luther King’s most iconic speeches, part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. Witness...

The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. A Continuous Struggle is a political biography...

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker...

Rooted in a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords grew into one of the most dynamic revolutionary community organizations of the late 1960s and early...

Two LGBTQ affirmative US Supreme Court Rulings occurred in the second decade of the twenty-first century: the 2015 Obergefell ruling in support of same sex...

Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical careIn the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor,...

  One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would...

  “When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the...

A transformative guide featuring unique practices to harness creativity as a tool for healing, justice, and liberation from visionary artist, activist, and New York Times bestselling author...