Collection: Staff Picks

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before...

  This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and poet JaNay Brown-Wood's cumulative tale, similar to "The...

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic...

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated...

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation...

The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How...

Forward by Angela Davis. A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness....

In this horror graphic novel from award-winning writer Jazmine Joyner and illustrator Anthony Pugh, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of...

Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began...

  A vibrant memoir from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Nenah Cherry who shares an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of...

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this...

Celebrate thrifted treasures and the power of community and family. When Pawpaw moves in, he shows Dominique a whole new meaning of hand-me-down clothes. When...

A debut graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Bianca Xunise. "Stole my heart from the first page to the last. Endlessly funny...

  Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem...

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder...

Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray. The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically...

  From the New York Times-bestselling author of All Boys Aren't Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from the Harlem Renaissance. In Flamboyants,...

A rich reappraisal of a key Black American modernist through a lens of cross-cultural engagement Sargent Claude Johnson (1888-1967) was the first Black modernist on...

The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume...

Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land...

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in...

This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged in...

The Western Museum is an ideological, political, and economic disunity battleground. Calls for its decolonization have washed like great breakers over the institution; almost everyone...

Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim...