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A landmark survey of Black American photojournalism spanning 1945 to 1984, chronicling a critical period in the civil rights movements in the United States This...

The first complete monograph devoted to the Caribbean artist whose work combines powerful visual storytelling with a deep exploration of social, political and cultural themes...

A rich examination of the role of portrait photography in the construction of Africa as a political idea   At a moment of profound change...

Superb photographs documenting the people, places and activist movements in apartheid-era South Africa   American photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe's understanding of race and class was shaped...

A whimsical monograph dedicated to the first museum exhibition of Othello's vibrant, playful and spiritually charged ceramics   Miami-born artist Woody De Othello (born 1991)...

From Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She’s Black, comes the highly anticipated second novel, focusing on the lives of three Black women as...

Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divided by long buried secrets, struggling to understand each other as...

Fans of Jennifer Weiner and Sunny Hostin will love this emotional dual-timeline novel about two former besties finding their way back to each other. To heal...

In Inhabitants of the Deep, Jonathan Howard undertakes a black ecocritical study of the "deep" in African American literature. Howard contends that the deep--a geographic formation...

In The Human in Bits, Kris Cohen examines black abstractionist painting to demonstrate how race and computation are intimately entangled with the personal computer's graphic user...

In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism.   Murphy establishes Phillis (as...

In The Elsewhere Is Black, Marisa Solomon examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial...

In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry's incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into...

In The Aesthetic Character of Blackness, Jemma DeCristo theorizes the means by which black art liberates the free world but does not and cannot liberate black...

A bold call to rethink authenticity at work Workplace dynamics in recent years have been a dizzying storm of broken promises. Companies that once encouraged...

Librarian and literacy ambassador Mychal Threets invites all to find themselves at the library! Perfect for little readers who are regular visitors and those who...

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about...

The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name for the first time You never know...

A James Beard Award winner celebrates the women heroes who are fighting against the Big Food system—and asks the question: How should we eat? When the Covid-19...

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more...

For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation Once the...

A rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendship in a West Virginia town After several years of silence...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!   When Candice finds a letter in an old attic in...