Black History Month

"The 808, as a sound-making machine, creates what some might say is the part of the beat that you can most feel in your chest, in your limbs, the p...

Notes in Praise of Black Performance A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead ...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirri...

From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal ...

The Nsibidi Scripts, Book #2 A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she be...

The Nsibidi Scripts, Book #1 Akata Witch transports the reader to a magical place where nothing is quite as it seems. Born in New York, but living...

The Nsibidi Scripts, Book #3 From award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, the electrifying third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, nam...

Rashad is absent again today.That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all…Well, no, actually, a lady tripping over Rashad at the store, making ...

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years...

Everyone has something to hide... Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in mi...

Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the bri...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers pa...

Notes from a Trap Feminist From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory...

A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched cultural observers of her generation In these funny ...

The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood A fascinating exploration and celebration of the life and work of the cooles...

From White Moderate to Abolitionist For years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back...

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First La...

Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and thei...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was...

The Complete Trilogy Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraor...

From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed Pet that explores both the importance and cost ...

For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street—a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lon...

In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journe...

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Book #2 In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker ...