Collection: Staff Picks

In Washington, D.C.’s powerful Black elite, legacy is everything. When a young heir to one of the city’s most influential institutions seeks funding to cement...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck: a dazzling, inspiring novel about an ordinary sanitation worker whose dream of becoming a real writer comes true—until...

A lyrical, polyphonic debut about a brother and sister growing up in a Black Pentecostal Church in Detroit, exploring themes of revelation and concealment; desire...

From the author of the instant cult classic Catherine House, a story of one woman’s search to find her place in a looming uncanny future.Crystal Washington—awkward,...

A young Black man feels called irresistibly to farmland he's never seen, where a fateful feud simmers between a pastor and his protégé. A thunderous...

Oh Sis, You’re Pregnant! is the go-to guide for modern pregnant Black women. In this newly updated edition in a lovely giftable package, mothers-to-be will find the sister-to-sister...

A gutting and powerful new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God probes Laymon's relationships with three generations of women in his life—his grandmother, his...

  "People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh -- why put it off?" When Angela Nissel found herself struggling...

From the award-winning author of Finna comes this moving, tender collection of poems exploring love and grief throughout the journey of lifein this luminous green cornerof a...

The most decorated athlete in track and field history reveals how her journey to becoming a mother turned into the fight of her life—and pushed...

A hilarious trivia game about Black language and its impact on culture, from the NAACP award-winning authors of Historically Black PhrasesIn Watch Ya' Mouth jarrett hill and Tre’vell...

Considers the meaning of gender in an African context. The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for...

Celebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation!Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes...

Whitney Houston's first two albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), propelled her to international fame and produced a record-setting run of seven consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot...

"Cheryl Clarke's ongoing gumption continues to ask us how loudly and proudly will we do what we do." --Alexis Pauline Gumbs These times need urgently...

After emancipation, freed people of all ages wanted to go to school. From the story of John McCline, who learned to read as a boy...

This deluxe hardcover edition features gorgeous sprayed stenciled edges while supplies last, stunning endpaper art of the Heart and the Boundary, and a never-before-seen bonus...

Chronicling the stories and resilience of Texas freedom colonies facing erasure, and of the efforts of descendant community members to safeguard them. Since Emancipation, Deep...

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow's stories are set in the imagined town of Honey, Mississippi, and they move through generations of shared history--the town's inhabitants are bound...

A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose,...

Spanish Language Translation “When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.”...

A searing exposé on one of the most insidious and long-standing issues plaguing law enforcement: deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department--by award-winning...

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice--in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.Songs...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...