Collection: Non-Fiction

Toward a More Perfect Rebellion tells the riveting story of the socially engaged filmmakers of color who studied in the Ethno-Communications Program at the University of...

Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement.   Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white...

A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition.   Based on years of research by the criminal justice...

Written by the creators of the popular website, this accessible, and fully illustrated guide is "a hilarious, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people...

How Black women's visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaning In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the...

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah...

Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible...

Salamishah Tillet (Contribution by), Robin Coste Lewis (Contribution by), Sophie Cavoulacos (Contribution by), et al. The definitive early career survey of one of the most...

This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in...

A full facsimile reproduction of the era-defining queer magazine that documented Chicago's Black nightlife scene of the early '90s Started in 1989 by designer and...

Winner of the 2024 “Most Useful” Book by the Non-Obvious Book AwardsA real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ever been underestimated, overlooked, or misunderstood...

Included in the Lakota People's Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025 We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the...

An "intimate and searching" (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from "one...

"This series offers solid glimpses of faraway places, more poetry than a tour guide . . . evocative and inviting" - School Library Journal  ...

For fans of Fight Like Hell and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front...

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lifestyle brand Madame de la Maison.The French are known...

Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands,...

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,...

An uplifting mini book filled with a bouquet of inspiration from artist and Instagram creator Devon Blow Planted in kindness, watered by joy, life blooms...

In this vulnerable exploration of personal identity, the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Still Here chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society...

Weaving together poetry, personal narrative, and never-before-seen documents from the Jefferson Lewis Edmonds' family archive, Arianne Edmonds provides a wide-ranging look at how the Black...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale comes a remarkable, career-spanning collection of short fiction and essays about love,...