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What’s Black about “History of Art”? Since the inception of mainstream art history, Blackness has been distinctly ignored. In Reframing Blackness, art historian and founder of @ABlackHistoryOfArt, Alayo Akinkugbe challenges this...

Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew...

Illustrated by Nate Powell "In sharing my story, it is my hope that a new generation will be inspired by Run to actively participate in the democratic process and help...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George...

A Philosophy of Violence Translated from the French by Kieran Aarons. A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher Is violent self-defense ethical?...

A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman Prize “Slaves for Peanuts plumbs a fascinating...

A New American Origin Story A dramatic expansion of one of the definitive journalistic events of recent years- The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine's award-winning reframing of the American founding and...

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret. 1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a...

The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport....

Big Ideas Simply Explained Foreword by David Olusoga An accessible guide to the key milestones in Black history, culture, and society across the globe — from the ancient world to...

The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave TradeA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and...

A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia - and sought to transform their lives.How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to...

FILM RIGHTS NOW OPTIONED BY QUEEN LATIFAH ''An Underground Railroad - but with magic'' P. Djeli Clark''...a delightfully genre-bending debut'' Tananarive Due Meet Hetty Rhodes, a former conductor on the...

Bridgerton with an all-Black-cast. A swoon-worthy historical romance for fans of Emily in Paris and To All the Boys I've Loved Before. This is the story of the Davenport daughters,...

"The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is, shockingly, little more than a footnote in history . . . Miller's book, thankfully, reverses that egregious oversight . . . we viscerally learn...

SOMETIMES MAKING HISTORY MEANS BREAKING SOME RULES… Don't miss the powerful new historical fiction novel Inspired by the incredible true story of Althea Gibson, the first Black athlete to win...

A collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with...

A Novel of Hattie McDaniel As seen on The TODAY Show! Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully...

Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s oil-rich Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery, a dressmaker with the gift of “second sight,” reluctantly reveals the...

"Part memoir, part history, and part political treatise, The South chronicles Reed's life under Jim Crow to correct what he sees as misleading representations of the past."–Elias Rodriques, Bookforum A...

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the...

Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience – for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman and Emma Dabir Wordsworth, Shelley,...

Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stages—even performing at Buckingham Palace. Novelist Tiffany L Warren brings this remarkable but forgotten diva’s remarkable...

Set in the Deep South pre Gone with the Wind and the Civil War, The Wedding Gift is a compelling and powerful story of slavery, abuse and passion. Perfect for...

A celebration of Black WomanhoodFor centuries, Black women have been written out of the dominant narrative, their stories untold, their art appropriated. Many of them found ways to resist. Some...

A STIRRING GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar...

Illustrated by Hugo Martinez A stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the...

A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 Now in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author, comes...

Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals Revolution in a minor key: how young Black women invented freedom. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of...

Poems & StoriesThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Part...

Before his murder at twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the pre-eminent storyteller of the 90s, building, in the process, one of the most iconic public personas...