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417 Publications Found

Black, Black Bird
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Black, Black Bird
Krishan Trotman
May 2027
The Language of Theft: How the Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense
The Language of Theft
Maya Contreras
Apr 2027
Sorrow’s Kitchen: Recipes for Justice and True Safety
Sorrow’s Kitchen
James Bell
Apr 2027
We Made the World: Five Centuries of Queens, Warriors, and Other Foremothers
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We Made the World
Kovie Biakolo
Mar 2027
I Can Feel It All Over
I Can Feel It All Over
Ebonya Lia
Mar 2027
Black Women Rising: A Joyful Self-Care Guide for Liberation & Healing
Black Women Rising
Rhonda Wells-Wilbon and Robin D. Stone
Mar 2027
All the Smoke
All the Smoke
Aaron Philip Clark
Feb 2027
The Best of the Crisis Magazine: Over 100 Years of Excellence in Black Literature from 1910 to Today
Sunday Always Comes!: A Message of Hope and Resilience
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Sunday Always Comes!
Justin J Pearson
Jan 2027
Sober Mine: Letting Go of Blac Chyna and Living My Faith
Sober Mine
Angela White
Jan 2027
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
Of Greed and Glory
Deborah G. Plant
Jan 2027
Daughters of the Wind: A Mythic Fantasy
Daughters of the Wind
Sheila Williams
Dec 2026
Nola and Baldwin
Nola and Baldwin
Donna Hill
Nov 2026
Beyond the Baths of Stars
Beyond the Baths of Stars
Schneider K. Rancy
Nov 2026
The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins
The Tiki Factor
Tiki Davis
Oct 2026
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
Back
Lauren Michele Jackson
Oct 2026
Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral
Notes on a Blacklash
April Ryan
Oct 2026
Birth of a Culture
Birth of a Culture
Grandmaster Flash
Sep 2026
The a Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Autism and Love
The a Word
Tisha Campbell
Sep 2026
Black Arts: Stories
Black Arts
Megan Giddings
Sep 2026
The Sunken, the Adored
The Sunken, the Adored
Donyae Coles
Aug 2026
Soft Spots
Soft Spots
Leila Renee
Aug 2026
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom
Leah Penniman
Jul 2026
A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A Purposefull Life
A Committee of One
Opal Lee
Jun 2026
The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir
The Double Dutch Fuss
Phill Branch
Jun 2026
Ghalen: A Romance in Black
Ghalen
Walter Mosley
May 2026
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
Young King
Lerone A. Martin
May 2026
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Nephew
MK Asante
May 2026
Now Then: A Novel
Now Then
Morgan Radford
May 2026
The Overseer Class: A Manifesto
The Overseer Class
Steven W. Thrasher
Apr 2026
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir
A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
A Soldier’s Wife
Blair Underwood
Apr 2026
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Shut Up and Read
Jeannine A. Cook
Mar 2026
It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir
It’s Never Too Late
Marla Gibbs
Feb 2026
True to the Game Omnibus
True to the Game Omnibus
Teri Woods
Feb 2026
Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church
Call and Response
L. Michelle Smith
Feb 2026
The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a "Beaurtiful" and Everlasting Relationship
The Way Love Goes
Shawntae Harris and Jesseca Harris-Dupart
Feb 2026
Stages: Poems
Stages
Tramaine Suubi
Jan 2026
A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices from the African American Past
A High Price for Freedom
Clyde W. Ford
Jan 2026
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must
Tara Pringle Jefferson
Dec 2025
Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
Black, White, Colored
Lauretta Malloy Noble and LeeAnet Noble
Nov 2025
Make Do with What You Have: 100 Delicious New Recipes from Favorite Old-School Meals
Make Do with What You Have
Kardea Brown
Nov 2025
Fela: Music Is the Weapon
Fela
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery
Oct 2025
It’s Me They Follow
It’s Me They Follow
Jeannine A. Cook
Sep 2025
Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light
Surviving Paris
Robin Allison Davis
Sep 2025
Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback)
Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
Joy in the Belly of a Riot
Barbara Fant
Sep 2025
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
Nervous
Jen Soriano
Aug 2025
Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation
Mounted
Bitter Kalli
Aug 2025
Family Threads
Family Threads
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Aug 2025
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession
Susana M. Morris
Aug 2025
Positive Obsession (paperback): The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Positive Obsession (paperback)
Susana M. Morris
Jul 2025
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock
Ian K. Smith
Jul 2025
My Parents’ Marriage
My Parents’ Marriage
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Jul 2025
The Road to the Salt Sea (paperback)
The Road to the Salt Sea (paperback)
Samuel Kolawole
Jul 2025
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Toni at Random
Dana A. Williams
Jun 2025
Midnight Rooms
Midnight Rooms
Donyae Coles
Jun 2025
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Daughters of Latin America
Sandra Guzmán
Jun 2025
Black Crossword: 100 MIDI Puzzles Connecting the African Diaspora
Black Crossword
Juliana Pache
Jun 2025
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Megan Giddings
Jun 2025
Trinity
Trinity
Zelda Lockhart
Jun 2025
Sins of Survivors: A Carter Brothers Novel
Sins of Survivors
Blair Underwood and Joe McClean
May 2025
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House
John Conyers III
May 2025
A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease
A Recipe for More
Sara Elise
May 2025
I’m Highly Percent Sure
I’m Highly Percent Sure
Caroline A. Wanga
May 2025
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)
Zora Neale Hurston
May 2025
The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
The Moment
Bakari Sellers
Apr 2025
Ella
Ella
Diane Richards
Apr 2025
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
Broken
Jessica Pryce
Apr 2025
No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
No Better Time
Sheila Williams
Apr 2025
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
Chloe
Connie Briscoe
Mar 2025
The Inner Fitness Revolution: A Road Map to Your Freedom and Joy
The Inner Fitness Revolution
Tina Lifford
Mar 2025
Confessions of a Video Vixen 20th Anniversary Edition: with Bonus Material
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette
Becoming Spectacular
Jennifer Jones
Feb 2025
Mainline Mama: A Memoir
Mainline Mama
Keeonna Harris
Feb 2025
Phases: Poems
Phases
Tramaine Suubi
Jan 2025
I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free
I Am Nobody’s Slave
Lee Hawkins
Jan 2025
The Life of Herod the Great
The Life of Herod the Great
Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 2025
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
Afrocentric Style
Shirley Neal
Nov 2024
Morningside: A Survivor’s Story of the Greensboro Massacre
Morningside
Aran Robert Shetterly
Oct 2024
Before 13th: A Graphic Novel
Before 13th
Michael Ralph
Sep 2024
Magically Black and Other Essays
Magically Black and Other Essays
Jerald Walker
Sep 2024
Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome
Strive
Venus Williams
Sep 2024
The Accomplice
The Accomplice
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark
Sep 2024
Black Crossword: 100 Mini Puzzles Celebrating the African Diaspora
Black Crossword
Juliana Pache
Aug 2024
Eagle Rock: An Ashe Cayne Novel, Book 4
Eagle Rock
Ian K. Smith
Aug 2024
My Parents’ Marriage
My Parents’ Marriage
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Jul 2024
Midnight Rooms
Midnight Rooms
Donyae Coles
Jul 2024
The Road to the Salt Sea
The Road to the Salt Sea
Samuel Kolawole
Jul 2024
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Nephew
MK Asante
May 2024
Ella: A Novel
Ella
Diane Richards
May 2024
The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn’t and How We All Can Move Forward Now
The Moment
Bakari Sellers
Apr 2024
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
The Span of a Small Forever
April Gibson
Apr 2024
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
Broken
Jessica Pryce
Mar 2024
Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
Anastacia-Reneé
Mar 2024
No Better Time
No Better Time
Sheila Williams
Feb 2024
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
Radical Reparations
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Feb 2024
Open Season (paperback): Legalized Genocide of Colored People
Open Season (paperback)
Ben Crump
Jan 2024
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda
Hannah Durkin
Jan 2024
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
Of Greed and Glory
Deborah G. Plant
Jan 2024
Rebecca, Not Becky
Rebecca, Not Becky
Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene
Dec 2023
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
Alice Walker
Nov 2023
Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness
Make Money Move
Lauren Simmons
Nov 2023
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Our Secret Society
Tanisha C. Ford
Oct 2023
Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
Gray Areas
Adia Harvey Wingfield
Oct 2023
Flipping Boxcars
Flipping Boxcars
Cedric the Entertainer
Sep 2023
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It
Jericho Brown
Jul 2023
Trinity
Trinity
Zelda Lockhart
Jul 2023
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 2 (1919-1945): A History of the African American Athlete
The Overnights: An Ashe Cayne Mystery
The Overnights
Ian K. Smith
Jun 2023
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe (paperback)
A.J. Verdelle
May 2023
Greenland (paperback)
Greenland (paperback)
David Santos Donaldson
May 2023
A Recipe for More
A Recipe for More
Sara Elise
May 2023
A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918): A History of the African American Athlete
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph
Top Billin’
Bill Bellamy
Apr 2023
A Woman of Endurance
A Woman of Endurance
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Apr 2023
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom
Leah Penniman
Apr 2023
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
Where the Children Take Us
Zain Asher
Apr 2023
No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
No Sweet Without Brine
Cynthia Manick
Apr 2023
Love Me as I Am: My Journey from Haiti to Hollywood to Happiness
Love Me as I Am
Garcelle Beauvais
Apr 2023
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist
Anastacia-Reneé
Mar 2023
You Never Know: A Novel of Domestic Suspense
You Never Know
Connie Briscoe
Mar 2023
The Last Suspicious Holdout (paperback): Stories
Africana: A Cookbook of Recipes and Flavors Inspired by a Rich Continent
Africana
Lerato Umah-Shaylor
Mar 2023
Things Past Telling (paperback)
Things Past Telling (paperback)
Sheila Williams
Feb 2023
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
Of Blood and Sweat
Clyde W. Ford
Feb 2023
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback)
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback)
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Jan 2023
Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water
Nyaneba Nkrumah
Jan 2023
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West
Jan 2023
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free
Reclamation (paperback): Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy
Reclamation (paperback)
Gayle Jessup White
Dec 2022
The Good Fight
The Good Fight
Shirley Chisholm
Nov 2022
Unbought and Unbossed
Unbought and Unbossed
Shirley Chisholm
Nov 2022
The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with Over 100 Recipes
The Way Home
Kardea Brown
Oct 2022
Black Women Will Save the World
Black Women Will Save the World
April Ryan
Oct 2022
The Essential Dick Gregory
The Essential Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
Oct 2022
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Sep 2022
Bad Fat Black Girl (paperback): Notes from a Trap Feminist
Bad Fat Black Girl (paperback)
Sesali Bowen
Sep 2022
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game
Ramon Hervey II
Aug 2022
The Women Could Fly
The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings
Aug 2022
Koshersoul
Koshersoul
Michael W. Twitty
Aug 2022
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets
Walking in My Joy
Jenifer Lewis
Aug 2022
Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
Illustrated Black History
George McCalman
Jul 2022
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors
Race and Reckoning
Ellis Cose
Jul 2022
Our Gen
Our Gen
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Jul 2022
Ramadan Ramsey (paperback)
Ramadan Ramsey (paperback)
Louis Edwards
Jul 2022
The Minister Primarily (paperback)
The Minister Primarily (paperback)
John Oliver Killens
Jun 2022
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (paperback): The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen (paperback)
Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Jun 2022
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are (paperback): A Memoir
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe
A.J. Verdelle
May 2022
Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!: The Women Who Changed Gospel Music
Isn’t Her Grace Amazing!
Cheryl Wills
May 2022
The Friendly Four
The Friendly Four
Eloise Greenfield
May 2022
Where the Children Take Us
Where the Children Take Us
Zain Asher
Apr 2022
A Woman of Endurance
A Woman of Endurance
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Apr 2022
Love Me as I Am (hardcover)
Love Me as I Am (hardcover)
Garcelle Beauvais
Apr 2022
Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Genesis of White Power and Wealth
Of Blood and Sweat
Clyde W. Ford
Apr 2022
Things Past Telling
Things Past Telling
Sheila Williams
Mar 2022
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
The Last Suspicious Holdout
Ladee Hubbard
Mar 2022
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
The Great Mrs. Elias
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Feb 2022
Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One
Own the Arena
Katrina M. Adams
Feb 2022
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
Brothers & Sisters
Eloise Greenfield
Jan 2022
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set
Zora Neale Hurston Boxed Set
Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 2022
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West
Jan 2022
A Calm Chaos
A Calm Chaos
Imani J. Walker
Dec 2021
The Rib King
The Rib King
Ladee Hubbard
Dec 2021
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant’s Search for Her Family’s Lasting Legacy
Reclamation
Gayle Jessup White
Nov 2021
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Girl Gurl Grrrl
Kenya Hunt
Nov 2021
Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography
Dorothy Dandridge
Donald Bogle
Oct 2021
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Bad Fat Black Girl
Sesali Bowen
Oct 2021
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
Sep 2021
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
Make Good the Promises
Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
Sep 2021
Ramadan Ramsey
Ramadan Ramsey
Louis Edwards
Aug 2021
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily
John Oliver Killens
Jul 2021
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
Alice Randall
Jul 2021
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories
Give My Love to the Savages
Chris Stuck
Jul 2021
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Inger Burnett-Zeigler
Jun 2021
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Ursula M. Burns
Jun 2021
Dick Gregory’s Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin’ with Mother Nature
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
Cack-Handed
Gina Yashere
Jun 2021
Greenland
Greenland
David Santos Donaldson
Jun 2021
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
My Remarkable Journey
Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, and Katherine Moore
May 2021
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir
My Vanishing Country
Bakari Sellers
May 2021
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream
Chris Gardner
Apr 2021
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
Natalie Baszile
Apr 2021
Lakewood
Lakewood
Megan Giddings
Mar 2021
Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One
Own the Arena
Katrina M. Adams
Feb 2021
No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American History
No More Lies
Dick Gregory
Feb 2021
Anti-Racist Ally
Anti-Racist Ally
Sophie Williams
Feb 2021
Just As I Am
Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson
Jan 2021
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone
Sensuous Knowledge
Minna Salami
Jan 2021
The Rib King
The Rib King
Ladee Hubbard
Jan 2021
Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale
Infinitum
Tim Fielder
Jan 2021
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 2021
Think Black: A Memoir
Think Black
Clyde W. Ford
Dec 2020
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Girl Gurl Grrrl
Kenya Hunt
Dec 2020
Africaville
Africaville
Jeffrey Colvin
Dec 2020
The Little Book of Big Lies (paperback): A Journey Into Inner Fitness
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Diamond Doris
Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart
Oct 2020
Dick Gregory’s Political Primer
Dick Gregory’s Political Primer
Dick Gregory
Sep 2020
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints
Alice Randall
Aug 2020
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy
Say It Louder!
Tiffany D. Cross
Jul 2020
The Secret Women
The Secret Women
Sheila Williams
Jun 2020
My Vanishing Country
My Vanishing Country
Bakari Sellers
May 2020
We Want Our Bodies Back
We Want Our Bodies Back
jessica Care moore
Mar 2020
Sensuous Knowledge
Sensuous Knowledge
Minna Salami
Mar 2020
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Barracoon
Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 2020
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West
Jan 2020
Africaville (Hardcover)
Africaville (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Colvin
Dec 2019
My Name Is Prince
My Name Is Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
Nov 2019
The Little Book of Big Lies
The Little Book of Big Lies
Tina Lifford
Nov 2019
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
Open Season
Ben Crump
Oct 2019
Sweat the Technique: the Elements of Writing—Anything
Sweat the Technique
Rakim
Sep 2019
Think Black
Think Black
Clyde W. Ford
Sep 2019
Diamond Doris
Diamond Doris
Doris Payne
Sep 2019
The Love Prison Made and Unmade
The Love Prison Made and Unmade
Ebony Roberts
Jul 2019
Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World
Life Is God’s Best Gift
Sam Chege
Jun 2019
One Night in Georgia
One Night in Georgia
Celeste O. Norfleet
Jun 2019
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
At Home with Muhammad Ali
Hana Ali
May 2019
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
New Daughters of Africa
Margaret Busby
May 2019
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Black Fortunes
Shomari Wills
Jan 2019
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
The Mother of Black Hollywood
Jenifer Lewis
Nov 2018
The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince
The Art & Science of Respect
James Prince
Jul 2018
The Warrior Method, Updated Edition: A Parents’ Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys
The Warrior Method, Updated Edition
Raymond A. Winbush
Jun 2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon
Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
May 2018
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
The Original Black Elite
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Jan 2018
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Ann Petry
Jan 2018
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
Defining Moments in Black History
Dick Gregory
Sep 2017
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
The Cooking Gene
Michael W. Twitty
Aug 2017
Ways of Grace: Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together
Ways of Grace
James Blake and Carol Taylor
Jun 2017
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
Brandon Harris
Jun 2017
Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit
Herb Boyd
Jun 2017
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
Chasing Space
Leland Melvin
May 2017
Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Rita Williams-Garcia
May 2017
Obama: From Promise to Power
Obama
David Mendell
Feb 2017
Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Eye On the Struggle
James Mcgrath Morris
Feb 2017
Jump: Take the Leap of Faith to Achieve Your Life of Abundance
Jump
Steve Harvey
Dec 2016
Another Brooklyn: A Novel
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson
Aug 2016
The Mother: A Novel
The Mother
Yvvette Edwards
May 2016
The Emperor of Sound: A Memoir
The Emperor of Sound
Timbaland and Veronica Chambers
Nov 2015
Sweetie Pie’s Cookbook: Soulful Southern Recipes, from My Family to Yours
Sweetie Pie’s Cookbook
Robbie Montgomery
Oct 2015
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture
Where Everybody Looks Like Me
Ron Stodghill
Sep 2015
The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City
The Book of Luke
Luther Campbell
Aug 2015
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life Of Ota Benga
Spectacle
Pamela Newkirk
Jun 2015
Balm: A Novel
Balm
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
May 2015
After The Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye
After The Dance
Jan Gaye and David Ritz
May 2015
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Rita Williams-Garcia
Apr 2015
Miss Jessie’s: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch—Naturally
Miss Jessie’s
Miko Branch
Apr 2015
Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press
Eye On The Struggle
James Mcgrath Morris
Feb 2015
P.S. Be Eleven
P.S. Be Eleven
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jan 2015
God Loves Haiti: A Novel
God Loves Haiti
Dimitry Elias Leger
Jan 2015
Dark Girls
Dark Girls
Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses
Nov 2014
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans
Conversations with God
James M. Washington
Oct 2014
Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life’s Riches
Bad Feminist: Essays
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
Aug 2014
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
The Harlem Hellfighters
Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles
Jul 2014
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