Collection: Staff Picks

A hilarious trivia game about Black language and its impact on culture, from the NAACP award-winning authors of Historically Black PhrasesIn Watch Ya' Mouth jarrett hill and Tre’vell...

Considers the meaning of gender in an African context. The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for...

Celebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation!Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes...

Whitney Houston's first two albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), propelled her to international fame and produced a record-setting run of seven consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot...

"Cheryl Clarke's ongoing gumption continues to ask us how loudly and proudly will we do what we do." --Alexis Pauline Gumbs These times need urgently...

After emancipation, freed people of all ages wanted to go to school. From the story of John McCline, who learned to read as a boy...

This deluxe hardcover edition features gorgeous sprayed stenciled edges while supplies last, stunning endpaper art of the Heart and the Boundary, and a never-before-seen bonus...

Chronicling the stories and resilience of Texas freedom colonies facing erasure, and of the efforts of descendant community members to safeguard them. Since Emancipation, Deep...

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow's stories are set in the imagined town of Honey, Mississippi, and they move through generations of shared history--the town's inhabitants are bound...

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose,...

Spanish Language Translation “When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.”...

A searing exposé on one of the most insidious and long-standing issues plaguing law enforcement: deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department--by award-winning...

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.Songs...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...

Seen is a journal of film and visual culture focused on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities globally, published in print and online by BlackStar Projects....

NYT bestselling creator Loveis Wise's author-illustrated debut is a tour de force—poetically exploring the interconnectedness between all things and the universe.I am many shapes and colors,everything...

  A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme, to the jazz clubs of Harlem,...

From the critically acclaimed author of the cult-classic Monstrilio comes a fever dream novel of twins and trickery, broken bones and brokenness, and of monsters, mischief, and...

Enter St. Paradise, a city pulsing with blood magic, where clan secrets and shifting allegiances rule the land. For the first time, bestselling novelist Akwaeke...

  An overview of Brackens' magical realist textiles that interfuse mythology with American history and Black identity This monograph offers an intimate and expansive introduction...

In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly...

A radiant ode to family love in its many forms, from award-winning author Winsome Bingham and New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz Whether biking or...

A child finds a way to access inner peace—when the world around her feels anything but peaceful—in this uplifting new picture book by acclaimed author-illustrator...