Collection: Staff Picks

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...

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade—now featuring the essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.A monumental...

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...

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town--untouched by white oppression--where ambitious...

A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. SmithThe forest in Tracy K....

Caught between her family back in Harlem and her glamorous new life, Louise Lloyd finds that her knack for solving crimes translates when she’s called...

  The New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post,...

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire...

A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement...

Artists from South Africa and Vietnam to Brazil and the Congo reckon with and reshape colonial and ethnographic photography More and more artists from beyond...