Collection: Non-Fiction

Basketball on New York City's 700+ outdoor courts was bubbling during the seventies and eighties and coincided with the birth of hip-hop and sneaker culture. Bobbito...

From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits...

What Maya Angelou Says is a collection of the beloved American icon's most uplifting quotes. Maya Angelou's life is a rich and remarkable one; using her...

Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black immigrant's vibrant personal metamorphosis. Growing up as a clever, willful boy in a tiny village in the...

This electrifying, can't-miss story of American democracy is the "indispensable book we need right now" (Senator Raphael Warnock), "a must read for every American" (The...

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit...

From an international cast of leading activist communicators, a timely and instructive handbook for telling stories that change the world   The twenty-first century has...

The astonishing debut monograph from contemporary abstract expressionist painter Genesis Tramaine   Gimme Some Sugar is the much-anticipated first monograph from Genesis Tramaine, the renowned American...

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle. As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil,...

Introducing ‘Pocket Decision Book’, a tiny but unique tool which aims to make your decision-making process simple yet effective.  With just a flip of its...

African American artists have made monumental contributions to the world of art, producing an influential body of work informed by the Black experience. Celebrated here...

With intuition, compassion, prowess, or just plain smarts and determination, the exemplary individuals showcased here have enhanced the human experience across a wide range of...

Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we...

A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game.   Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most...

Mic check! Learn to count with 2Pac in the Legends of Hip-Hop board book series.   In this accessible series perfectly crafted for babies (and...

Crying in LA: Sapphic Longing in Tongues and Tears is an emboldened, Afrocentric collection of poetry that explores Black sapphic love, uncertainty, and loss through metaphors...

Lauren Halsey documents Halsey's debut exhibition with the David Kordansky gallery and features texts by Elleza Kelley and Lynell George, with a photo essay by...

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the...

A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance—written by her great-granddaughter.Dubbed the...

A New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Hillman Book Prize and Robert F Kennedy Book Award • Finalist for the LA Times Book Award •...

We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet's memoir about family, survival, and...

Mandii B and WeezyWTF, hosts of the Decisions, Decisions (formerly WHOREible Decisions) podcast, deliver a bold, unfiltered, and raw, sex-positive collection of relatable tales. They tackle everything from...

Shelved during the McCarthy era, Model's photographs of jazz musicians--together with a text by Langston Hughes--are finally published for the first time Street photographer Lisette...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the...