Third World Press

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  Third World Press

Haki R. Madhubuti founded Third World Press Foundation, the oldest independent publisher of Black thought and literature in the country, in 1967. For more than 50 years, Third World Press has brought the reading public books that encourage creativity, inspire intellect, engender pride and spur engaged and informed critical debate over issues of race, culture, politics, and social health.  Their promise and claim has been that they are not to let the few precious, motionless moments pass them without reading for their knowledge, interest, or entertainment.

The tittles that TWP publish are indeed indicative of their pledge and steadfast goal to remain committed to giving insightful, progressive works by and about people of the African Diaspora a platform.  The titles below are just a small sample of the work they have published over the years.


Progressive Black Publishing Since 1967

Third World Press
7822 S. Dobson Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60619  

Phone: 773-651-0700  -  Fax: 773-651-7286
https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/

90 Publications Found

For Gaza’s Children: Progressive Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out
For Gaza’s Children
Haki Madhubuti, Marc Lamont Hill, and Keith Gilyard
Nov 2024
Africa’s Gifts of the Spirt
Africa’s Gifts of the Spirt
Molefi Kete Asante
Mar 2024
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku
Kalamu ya Salaam
Oct 2023
Longer Than Breath
Longer Than Breath
Fred Lee Hord
Oct 2022
From Enslavement to Belovedness: for the Dignity of my People
From Enslavement to Belovedness
Adelaide L. Sanford
Sep 2022
Journey: Poems
Journey
Wade Hudson
Oct 2020
Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language: New and Selected
Taught by Women
Haki Madhubuti
Sep 2020
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not?
Haki Madhubuti and Herb Boyd
Mar 2019
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era
Bakari Kitwana
Jun 2018
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka
Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King
Feb 2018
Keeping Peace: Reflections on Life, Legacy, Commitment and Struggle
Keeping Peace
Lasana D. Kazembe
Feb 2018
Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
Not Our President
Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe
Sep 2017
Rise of the Phoenix: Voices from Chicago’s Black Struggle 1960-1975
Rise of the Phoenix
Useni Eugene Perkins
Sep 2017
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook
Christine List
Feb 2017
Taking Bullets: Black Boys and Men in Twenty-first Centrury America, Fighting Terrorism, Stopping Violence and Seeking Healing
Taking Bullets
Haki Madhubuti
Feb 2016
Black Hollywood Unchained
Black Hollywood Unchained
Ishmael Reed
Sep 2015
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
The Magic Of Juju
Kalamu ya Salaam
Jun 2015
Pedagogical Imagination: Volume II: Using the Master’s Tools to Inform Conceptual Leadership, Engaged Scholarship and Social Action
Pedagogical Imagination
Edmund W. Gordon
Nov 2014
Pedagogical Imagination: Volume III: Defiance: On Becoming an Agentic Black Male Scholar
Pedagogical Imagination
Edmund W. Gordon
Nov 2014
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems
Into Africa, Being Black
Fred Lee Hord
Jun 2014
Pedagogical Imagination, Volume I: A Conceptual Memoir: Using the Master’s Tools to Change the Subject of the Debate
Pedagogical Imagination, Volume I
Edmund W. Gordon
Mar 2014
Arkansippi Memwars: Poetry, Prose & Chants 1962-2012
Arkansippi Memwars
Eugene B. Redmond
Mar 2014
The Diary of Malcolm X: 1964
The Diary of Malcolm X
Herb Boyd
Nov 2013
Home/Bass: Poems
Home/Bass
Sterling D. Plumpp
Jun 2013
An Onion Of Wars
An Onion Of Wars
Tony Medina
Apr 2012
Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice
Honoring Genius
Haki Madhubuti
Jan 2012
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary
Herb Boyd
Jan 2012
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America
The Classroom and the Cell
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dec 2011
Razor
Razor
Amiri Baraka
Apr 2011
Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America
Ballers of the New School
Thabiti Lewis
Dec 2010
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
Feeding the Soul
Diane D. Turner
May 2010
My Name Is Oney Judge
My Name Is Oney Judge
Diane D. Turner
Apr 2010
The First: President Barack Obama’s Road To The White House As Originally Reported By Roland S. Martin
The First
Roland S. Martin
Jan 2010
Greenwood
Greenwood
Herbert G. McCann
Oct 2009
Liberation Narratives: New And Collected Poems: 1966-2009
Liberation Narratives
Haki Madhubuti
Sep 2009
Pieces Of The Hole: Short Stories
Pieces Of The Hole
Tony Lindsay
Jul 2008
Honoring the Ancestors
Honoring the Ancestors
James E. Cherry
Jun 2008
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing
Meditations And Ascensions
Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford
May 2008
Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers
Gwendolyn Brooks and Working Writers
Jacqueline Bryant
Jun 2007
They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems
They Shall Run
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Apr 2007
Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
Fingernails Across the Chalkboard
Randall Horton, M L Hunter, and Becky Thompson
Apr 2007
Crisis of the Black Intellectual
Crisis of the Black Intellectual
W. D. Wright
Apr 2007
1996
1996
Gloria Naylor
Mar 2007
The Covenant with Black America
The Covenant with Black America
Tavis Smiley
Feb 2006
Free!: Great Escapes From Slavery On The Underground Railroad
Free!
Lorene Cary
Feb 2006
Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective
Clarity as Concept
Mari Evans
Feb 2006
Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity
Black Culture Centers
Fred Lee Hord
Dec 2005
YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life
YellowBlack
Haki Madhubuti
Dec 2005
Harvesting New Generations: The Positive Development of Black Youth
Harvesting New Generations
Useni Eugene Perkins
Jan 2005
Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook
Run Toward Fear
Haki Madhubuti
Jun 2004
Paradox Of Loyalty: An African American Response To The War On Terrorism
Paradox Of Loyalty
Julianne Malveaux, Regina Green and Gwendolyn Brooks
Jan 2004
Memories & Images: Selected Poems
Memories & Images
Useni Eugene Perkins
Apr 2003
Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth
Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth
Sterling D. Plumpp
Jan 2003
Committed To Breathing
Committed To Breathing
Tony Medina
Jan 2003
Tough Notes: A Healing Call For Creating Exceptional Black Men
Tough Notes
Haki Madhubuti
May 2002
Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
Role Call
Tony Medina, Samiya Bashir, and Quraysh Ali Lansana
Feb 2002
Straight Wobblings of My Father
Straight Wobblings of My Father
Fred Lee Hord
Feb 2001
Southside Rain
Southside Rain
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Oct 1999
Intellectual Warfare
Intellectual Warfare
Jacob Carruthers
May 1999
My Life in Search of Africa
My Life in Search of Africa
John Henrik Clarke
Feb 1999
Heartlove: Wedding and Love Poems
Heartlove
Haki Madhubuti
May 1998
Afrolantica Legacies
Afrolantica Legacies
Derrick Bell
Sep 1997
Ornate With Smoke
Ornate With Smoke
Sterling D. Plumpp
Jan 1997
Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum: Proceedings of the First National Conference
Infusion of African and African American Content in the School Curriculum
Asa G. Hilliard III, Lucretia Payton-Stewart, and Larry Obadele Williams
Nov 1996
Hornman
Hornman
Sterling D. Plumpp
Nov 1996
Groundwork: New and Selected Poems, Don L. Lee/Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966 - 1996
Groundwork
Haki Madhubuti
Jan 1996
Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology, Speeches, Commentary, Photography, Poetry, Illustrations & Documents
Million Man March/Day of Absence
Haki Madhubuti and Maulana Karenga
Jan 1996
Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption: Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment
Claiming Earth
Haki Madhubuti
Jul 1995
Testing African American Students
Testing African American Students
Asa G. Hilliard III
Jan 1995
Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It?: Gangsta Rap and Visions of Black Violence
Rap on Gangsta Rap
Bakari Kitwana
Sep 1994
What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
What Is Life?
Kalamu ya Salaam
May 1994
Life Sentences: Freeing Black Relationships
Life Sentences
Fred Lee Hord
Oct 1993
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?
John Henrik Clarke
Aug 1993
Black Fairy and Other Plays
Black Fairy and Other Plays
Useni Eugene Perkins
Aug 1993
Rebirth of African Civilization
Rebirth of African Civilization
Chancellor Williams
Jan 1993
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha: A Critical Collection
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha
Jacqueline Bryant
Jan 1993
Maud Martha
Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks
Oct 1992
Don’t Cry, Scream
Don’t Cry, Scream
Haki Madhubuti
Jun 1992
The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
The Destruction of Black Civilization
Chancellor Williams
Feb 1992
Black Anglo-Saxons
Black Anglo-Saxons
Nathan Hare
Feb 1992
Blacks
Blacks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Oct 1991
Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism
Reconstructing Memory
Fred Lee Hord
Jan 1991
Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?: The Afrikan American Family in Transition
Black Men, Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
Haki Madhubuti
Jan 1991
New Plays for the Black Theater
New Plays for the Black Theater
Woodie King
Jan 1989
Black Rituals
Black Rituals
Sterling D. Plumpp
Dec 1987
Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors
Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors
Haki Madhubuti
Jan 1987
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
I’ve Been a Woman
Sonia Sanchez
Jun 1985
Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
Tiger Who Wore White Gloves
Gwendolyn Brooks
Apr 1974
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
Ali Mazrui
Jan 1972
Journey to Africa
Journey to Africa
Hoyt Fuller
Dec 1971

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