Collection: Non-Fiction

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white...

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children--and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.  ...

Published in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the United States and Europe in 2022-24, Wild Things Are Happening  emphasizes Maurice Sendak's relationship...

  From the multi-award-winning performer, author, and activist, a comprehensive program for addressing mental and physical health--and encouraging communities to do the same. Common has...

  Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's cooperation and...

A classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. First published in 1941, Deep...

Star of HBO's Insecure Jay Ellis tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget--part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part...

A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine gets an update following the events of October 7, 2023. Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire is an essential...

A portrait of worker solidarity in the South, and of the fightfor Black liberation. In 1928, the Third International adopted a resolution on the right...

"Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force...

Featuring the lush, powerful paintings of Noah Davis, this blank book--the latest in The Artist Journals series--offers the ideal forum to energize the inner artist or writer....

Peabody Award-winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project....

Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara's Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home--as place, as people,...

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the...

In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to...

From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality--we are living through a political moment when debates...

The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black women's track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family...

A lively and gift-worthy introduction to the biggest names and works in Black figuration This visual gift book introduces readers to the field of Black...

Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting...

An expansive look at one of the greatest American photo series. Gordon Parks' 1942 portrait of government worker Ella Watson, American Gothic, is among the most celebrated...

Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary artists"There is never a time in the future...

Under the gaze of famed Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, this project vividly portrays the lives of several residents of the Chicano community in Boyle Heights,...