Collection: Staff Picks

The long-awaited first major monograph on the iconic portraitist of Black Americans This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive...

In ONYX, photographer Adrienne Raquel explores the intensity and escapism of the strip club experience, documenting performers at Houston's famed Club Onyx. Raquel's photography is usually...

A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah...

The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora Over the...

America's greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed, Life Among the Aryans follows John...

  From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years...

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of...

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy...

A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seamstress, a legendary DIY project...

  Angela Davis' iconic 1985 essay on the role of art in social and racial liberation, illustrated by painter Tschabalala Self In her stirring and...

The People Who Report More Stress is a collection of interconnected stories brimming with the anxieties of people who retreat into themselves while living in the...

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the debut solo album studio by Lauryn Hill. Released August 25, 1998, the album swept the Grammy Awards in...

Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in south London. But, at just 28, she is also tired. Though she spends her days...

Boldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne's Chrome Valley offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. "We praise their names / & the hands...

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists...

What to Expect Before You're Expecting for people growing families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model, Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo...

An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell Williams Rising to global fame with...

This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone--from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James's story is...

Instant New York Times Bestseller  From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles--and living your...

Ruth E. Carter is a living legend of costume design. For three decades, she has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen--from the...

"Real, raw, magnificent--Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read." --Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author A Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick!...