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A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal...

A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout.In stunning verse and vivid use...

Meridian Hill, the brilliant and inquisitive daughter of a working-class Black family in the American south, comes of age against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement. Life...

A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his eraWritten during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties,...

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips's riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend —...

A New American Origin StoryA 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...

From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce...

The tale of a woman transformed by a Black healing community in 1970s America, publishing for the first time in Penguin Modern ClassicsThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma...

Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has...

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a NationIn her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three women...