Collection: Books

How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered...

America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart In this analysis of social history, examine the complex lineage of America's oppression of Black...

A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight of a world filled with racism...

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with an unforgettable story about the meaning of freedom. Coming of age as a...

From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the Black activist, organizer, and freedom...

  Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.Rosewater is a town...

The New York Times Bestseller from the author of Our Time Is Now "In a time when too many folks are focused simply on how to win an election,...

From Senator—and now Vice President-elect—Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us—and if we try, we can all...

From US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden’s pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about...

“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...

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and...

The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of Black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is...

From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's...

  “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New...

Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.   The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art...

A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with...

This first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of storytelling" (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound...

An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar—the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to...

A haunting story of love and war from the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman's later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling...