Collection: Antiracism

An ambitious and vast family history by the nephew of Soledad Brother author George Jackson and son of Black Panther martyr Jonathan Jackson, whose famous act of...

“With its unflinching excavation of our dark past, American Nightmare is a page turner with a message.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of KinIn this haunting historical novel, a...

Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City, acclaimed historian Shane White finally sets the historical record...

A rigorous account of the pivotal but little-studied civil rights leader Jamil Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, stitches together new and profound connections. I Rise in...

After emancipation, freed people of all ages wanted to go to school. From the story of John McCline, who learned to read as a boy...

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose,...

Integration and black power collide and force a black man who has walked comfortably in the black and white communities to realize he is not...

This zine situates study itself as an act of defiance, remembrance and freedom work by tracing the enduring legacy of David Walker's An Appeal to the...

"My clothes are different, my face is different, my hair is different, but I am somebody. I am black, brown, white. I speak a different language....

Critical works by legendary Black radical and political prisoner Martin Sostre I Cannot Submit to Injustices is a collection of works by Black Puerto Rican revolutionary...

A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning authorIn his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir,...

Now babies and toddlers can learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! This sturdy board book edition of the popular Little Golden Book Biography has shorter,...

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's writings on translation. Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories,...

The first comprehensive collection of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's nonfiction, spanning lectures and texts on colonialism, labor and political struggles, and the legacies of...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of...

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders' violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction,...

  LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then...

“Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the...

A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times“Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This...

Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation...

On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights...

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whitenessFour years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up...

For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction: the landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”—featuring an...