Collection: Non-Fiction

Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and...

"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." -- Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at the heart...

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed gay and transvestite bars....

An invitation for women to discover a healthier approach to spirituality and sexuality that centers pleasure rather than shame, from body- and sex-positive preacher and...

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton...

    Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie...

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation. Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the...

"Every day, I have lived through the massacre. While our country may forget this history, I cannot." Viola Ford Fletcher   Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't...

An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better  ...

The final book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us inspiration and tools for transforming...

A landmark work of untold American history that reshapes our understanding of identity, race, and belongingIn We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells...

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person...

A complete survey of Marshall's prints from the 1970s to the present, with many previously unseen works Kerry James Marshall is famed for his beautifully...

One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker...

These photographic diptychs of LGBTQ+ people in America express the acute vulnerability of coming out From 2011 to 2015, Brooklyn-based photographer Ash Kolodner (born 1987)...

  This book showcases the unique vision and work of Olajumoke Adenowo, hailed as "Africa's starchitect" and Africa's most influential female architect. Olajumoke Adenowo is...

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope. Have you ever wondered...

  Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this collection features encouraging letters on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane...

A powerful look at the impacts of anti-Black racism and a practical guide for overcoming racial trauma through radical self-care as a form of resistance...

- Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction- A New York Times Notable Book- A Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of...

The Revolution Starts at Home is as urgently needed today as when it was first published. This watershed collection breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the "secret"...

The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and...