Collection: Non-Fiction

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography all about Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theatre's first Black principal dancer! The...

Meet Black Madonna—Mother of Abundance, Holy Insurrectionist, Our Lady of F Around and Find OutThis bold reclamation of the divine feminine offers a new vision...

The first publication to examine the visual, political and spiritual histories of dancehall, reggae en español, and reggaeton through the lens of contemporary art Published...

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...

Hattie Magazine is a quarterly print magazine created by Multidisciplinary Artist Jazmin Jenay. It was created out of a deep love for print and a...

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,...

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...

In this biography, literary giant Maryse Condé recounts her early adult years in Guinea, Ghana, and Sénégal, set against the backdrop of their struggles for...

An updated and revised biography of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Patrice Lumumba (1926-61) is perhaps the most...

Seen is a journal of film and visual culture focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally, published in print and online by BlackStar Projects....

A debut collection that examines US-Cuba tensions, transnational Black identity, and revolutionary gatheringsKyle Carrero Lopez’s electrifying debut collection centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Burden’s searing, probing memoir explores . . . what she learned about intimacy and her own spirit.”—People“A beautifully written instant...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100...

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...

The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, sentenced to life in prison, refused to surrender his future--a story so powerful that it transformed...

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,...

Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending...

Booklist Editor's Choice FRIENDSHIP IS THE GREAT LOVE STORY WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. Friendship is good for your health. Studies show that loneliness is as...

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

A Sacred Journey Back Home to Yourself Through the Power of Rituals In a world of burnout, overwhelm, and constant noise, many of us feel...

Loving Black Boys is not just a love letter to Tamura Lomax's own sons, but to all Black boys, men, fathers, and brothers. With understanding and...

Break the Cycle. Empower Your Child. From board-certified gynecologist Dr. Charis Chambers, known to millions as @theperioddoctor, comes a revolutionary guide that transforms how we...

Commemorating Bey's return to the city that helped support his development as a master of sculptural pottery This volume commemorates Pittsburgh-born ceramic artist, sculptor and...