Collection: Books

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get...

The Depths of Anima is an introspective look at Black girlhood and the transition into womanhood. It challenges Carl Jung's concept of "anima" by introducing an interpretation...

Seen: A Journal of Film & Visual Culture Through the years of producing the festival, we have learned from our audiences that in order to shift the...

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation’s Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely...

Whiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered...

Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry | Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in PoetryA searing volume...

“A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it’s also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into...

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner...And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving...

On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17...

A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X —  A rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on...

An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works,...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin & other conversations “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was...

"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." — The NationBaldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also...

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and...

Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime...

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment ― halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial Black women...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are...

Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across...

Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South...

Includes a brand-new Binti story!Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one...

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are...