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Behind every superstar--from Rihanna to Justin Bieber, SZA to Post Malone--there's an A&R executive shaping their sound, vision, and career. This is the definitive inside...

OCTAVIA BUTLER meets GAIL HONEYMAN in this hilarious eco-satire spinning cli-fi on its head as it takes the emotional temperature of our age.   I...

We have to-morrowBright before usLike a flame The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together...

Jazmyn Payne fled the small town of Chance the minute she graduated high school.   But for one week every summer she returns in order...

The weather might be icy, but the tension is red-hot in this fake dating hockey rom-com from the author of Let the Games Begin. Ari Shumba...

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...

The collected contributions from Simone Leigh’s 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women’s intellectual and creative laborAs a part of the United States Pavilion for...

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...

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Life of the Party is an archive and annotation...

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our...

A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere...

OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the...

Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history—and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic...

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD"Puts a monstrous face on bigotry and a beautiful new spin on the Harlem Renaissance." —The AV ClubIn the 1920s, the...

Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of...

Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormick's lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black...

In the last 15 years of his life Noah Purifoy lived in the Mojave Desert where he created large-scale sculptures spread over ten acres. British...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist traces the rise of the authoritarian and xenophobic movements threatening democracies around the globe. Dr....

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...

From the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers...

From the beloved Today show host Sheinelle Jones comes an inspiring collection of heartfelt life-lessons from hard working moms who raised some of our favorite celebrities. When...

The year is 2035, and Los Angeles County is awash in a tangelo haze of wildfire smoke. Xandria Anastasia Brown spends her days deep in...

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a "powerful and necessary guide toward self-discovery and metamorphosis" (Dr. Mariel Buqué) that can help transform not...