Collection: History

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade—now featuring the essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.A monumental...

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors...

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...

  Dionne Lee (born in New York, 1988) works across photography, video, and collage to examine histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity in...

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film...

Roshanak Kheshti opens her book with a line from one of Zora Neale Hurston's earliest stories: "we see with the skin." From this brief but...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black periodical editors roved across oceans and between empires, bearing newspaper texts, formats, and genres with them. As...

Cuba in the 1970s was a beacon of Third World liberation--and a sanctuary for US radicals on the run. Fugitive States is the true story of Charlie...

Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of...

From theatrical costumes to leather accessories and jewelry, Saar's early wearable artworks are as transformative as her assemblages Organized around Betye Saar's early work in...

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...

Today, Brazil is home to both some of the strongest trans rights protections and the highest rates of transphobic murders in Latin America. To explain...

The little-known heroes behind Motown’s greatest hits are finally heard in this moving memoir filled with the rich historical atmosphere and emotional resonance of Hidden Figures,...

Writings on the new international subcultures of print on demand Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s...

A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement...

Artists from South Africa and Vietnam to Brazil and the Congo reckon with and reshape colonial and ethnographic photography More and more artists from beyond...

“A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful boldly explores...

Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground,...

Lead with Power. Lead with Care. Change Everything.Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women redefines what leadership looks like by honoring the distinctive, transformative approaches...

Celebrate Juneteenth with this empowering picture book!On June 19th, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas. Every year, our community...

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the...

"We tell these parts of our stories in order to heal from hurt and honor the ways we have been healing."—Patrice Gopo, from the introduction Can Black...