Collection: Non-Fiction

Gaza is the first genocide to be captured in real-time images on devices we hold in our hands. Two days after October 7, the Lebanese...

In the tradition of books by Albert Woodfox and Angela Davis comes the gripping memoir of a wrongful conviction and life on death row in...

As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from...

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this...

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a...

Gucci Mane, one of hip-hop’s most iconic figures and a trailblazer in Atlanta’s rap culture, reveals his struggles with mental health and drug addiction that...

The deluxe 10th anniversary hardcover edition of the galvanizing New York Times bestseller The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes—executive producer of Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal,...

An expansive survey of video, installation and more from Arthur Jafa, whose practice is “a counterpunch to anyone who wants to put people of color...

The first feature article that Parks both wrote and photographed is reassembled through previously unseen images, contact sheets, ephemeral material and Parks’ original manuscriptIn 1953,...

Accompanying the largest UK survey to date of work by the legendary Chicago-based figurative painterThis volume is the most extensive publication on Kerry James Marshall...

The first book on beloved Los Angeles community organizer and urban gardener Ron Finley, known as the “Gangsta Gardener”Ron Finley is a visionary designer, horticulturalist...

Dedicated to Gilliam’s late-career sewn and collaged fabric works, this colorful catalog embraces the artist’s restless creativity and visionary approach to abstractionA pioneering artist who...

A MacArthur “Genius” shares her inspiring story, from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement.Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both...

The compelling memoir that explores race, cultural representation, Black media’s legacy, privilege, and identity from VIBE’s founding fashion editor and CNN correspondent Michaela Angela Davis.As VIBE’s founding...

Born in Jim Crow-era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighters.    The...

Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature.   A driving...

Stéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight....

THE CURATORS OF CULTURE: Celebrate Black digital art in this essay collection revealing how Black artists have shaped everything from TikTok dances to viral memes...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history” (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of...

From V&A curators Rosalind McKever and Claire Wilcox, Fashioning Masculinities is a visually stunning exploration of how fashion shapes ideas of masculinity. At a moment...

  Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po' Monkey's, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke...

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to...