Collection: Non-Fiction

  Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last...

The host of MSNBC's The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie...

  The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist...

  This one-of-a-kind treasure trove of Black cultural ephemera, from the entrepreneurs behind the vintage shop BLK MKT Vintage, expands on their mission to curate...

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas. In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice,...

Discover the revolutionary new Artist's Way tool, from "the Queen of Change" (New York Times)  In her internationally bestselling book, The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron shared...

A radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression.  In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in...

What to Expect When You're Not Expected to Expect Anything Anymore Did you see the title and flame-filled cover of this book, and did your...

  From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home....

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the center...

A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to...

  For Readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men...

Black Firsts in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on more than 200 extraordinary achievements by Black Angelenos. Black Firsts highlights the oft unheralded accomplishments of Black Angelenos...

From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, "elegant" (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into...

In the vein of the hugely popular Catch Me If You Can, and soon to be a movie and documentary on Netflix, comes the riveting story...

  For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As...

  From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the...

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress...

A sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions,...