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124 Publications Found

Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
Forever for the Culture
Steven Underwood
Jan 2026
A Black Queer History of the United States
A Black Queer History of the United States
C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost
Jan 2026
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
No Human Involved
Cheryl L. Neely
Jan 2026
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Slavery After Slavery
Mary Frances Berry
Jan 2026
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land
When It’s Darkness on the Delta
W. Ralph Eubanks
Jan 2026
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
Tell Her Story
LaShawn Harris
Aug 2025
Boy Maybe: Poems
Boy Maybe
W. J. Lofton
Mar 2025
Here I Stand
Here I Stand
Paul Robeson
Feb 2025
The Unicorn Woman
The Unicorn Woman
Gayl Jones
Aug 2024
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
Encounter on the Seine
James Baldwin
Aug 2024
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The Harlem Ghetto
James Baldwin
Jul 2024
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel
James Baldwin
Jun 2024
Watershed (2024)
Watershed (2024)
Percival Everett
Mar 2024
God’s Country (2024)
God’s Country (2024)
Percival Everett
Mar 2024
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Twice as Hard
Jasmine Brown
Jan 2024
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
Butter
Gayl Jones
Apr 2023
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
School Clothes
Jarvis R. Givens
Feb 2023
Meditations of the Heart
Meditations of the Heart
Howard Thurman
Jan 2023
The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher
Gayl Jones
Sep 2022
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Soul Culture
Remica Bingham-Risher
Sep 2022
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Mosquito
Mosquito
Gayl Jones
Feb 2022
Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma
Living While Black
Guilaine Kinouani
Jan 2022
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin
Sep 2021
Palmares
Palmares
Gayl Jones
Sep 2021
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
White Space, Black Hood
Sheryll Cashin
Sep 2021
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Not a Nation of Immigrants
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Aug 2021
Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal
James Baldwin
May 2021
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
Sonia Sanchez
Apr 2021
Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Julian Bond’s Time to Teach
Julian Bond
Jan 2021
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Dance We Do
Ntozake Shange
Oct 2020
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
Let My People Vote
Desmond Meade
Oct 2020
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
We Want to Do More Than Survive
Bettina L. Love
Feb 2020
A Black Women’s History of the United States
A Black Women’s History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Feb 2020
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Full Dissidence
Howard Bryant
Jan 2020
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
White Negroes
Lauren Michele Jackson
Nov 2019
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
Breathe
Imani Perry
Sep 2019
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Unapologetic
Charlene A. Carruthers
Aug 2019
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Corregidora
Corregidora
Gayl Jones
Jan 2019
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Oct 2018
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Looking for Lorraine
Imani Perry
Sep 2018
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
Jun 2018
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
The Heritage
Howard Bryant
May 2018
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
Loving
Sheryll Cashin
Feb 2018
Race Matters (hardcover)
Race Matters (hardcover)
Cornel West
Dec 2017
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
The World in Flames
Jerald Walker
Sep 2017
Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America
Spare the Kids
Stacey Patton
Mar 2017
Like One of The Family
Like One of The Family
Alice Childress
Jan 2017
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh
Daina Ramey Berry
Jan 2017
Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families
Same Family, Different Colors
Lori Tharps
Oct 2016
All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
All the Real Indians Died Off
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Oct 2016
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
Lani Guinier
Jan 2016
The Radical King (King Legacy)
The Radical King (King Legacy)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2016
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
One Righteous Man
Arthur Browne
Jun 2015
Black Prophetic Fire
Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West
Oct 2014
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Place, Not Race
Sheryll Cashin
May 2014
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students (King Legacy)
A Time to Break Silence
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nov 2013
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Jeanne Theoharis
Jan 2013
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2013
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Jan 2013
Notes of a Native Son
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Nov 2012
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Reimagining Equality
Anita Hill
Sep 2012
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
“All Labor Has Dignity”
“All Labor Has Dignity”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2012
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image
MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oct 2011
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington
Nobody Turn Me Around
Charles Euchner
Jul 2011
Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black And Latin Game
Raceball
Rob Ruck
Mar 2011
Morning Haiku
Morning Haiku
Sonia Sanchez
Jan 2011
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2011
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (Revised)
Fist Stick Knife Gun
Geoffrey Canada
Sep 2010
Fist Stick Knife Gun (Graphic Novel): A Personal History of Violence
Fist Stick Knife Gun (Graphic Novel)
Geoffrey Canada
Sep 2010
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Another Kind of Public Education
Patricia Hill Collins
Apr 2010
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
Three Plays
Howard Zinn
Mar 2010
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
The Protest Psychosis
Jonathan Metzl
Jan 2010
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy)
Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2010
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? (King Legacy)
Where Do We Go From Here
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 2010
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Inheriting the Trade
Thomas Norman DeWolf
Jan 2009
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations In An Era Of School Resegregation
Can We Talk About Race?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Apr 2008
White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education
White Money/Black Power
Noliwe Rooks
May 2007
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
On the Courthouse Lawn
Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Feb 2007
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
The Sounds of Slavery
Shane White
Apr 2005
Kindred
Kindred
Octavia Butler
Feb 2004
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number
Carleen Brice
May 2003
Case for Black Reparations
Case for Black Reparations
Boris I. Bittker
May 2003
Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Summer Snow
Trudier Harris
Apr 2003
The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
The Cruel Years
William L. Katz
Apr 2003
You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times
The Condemnation of Little B.
The Condemnation of Little B.
Elaine Brown
Feb 2002
Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans
Lay My Burden Down
Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander
Oct 2001
Who’s Qualified?
Who’s Qualified?
Lani Guinier
Sep 2001
Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)
Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)
Sindiwe Magona
Sep 2000
Song For Anninho
Song For Anninho
Gayl Jones
Apr 2000
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
Shake Loose My Skin
Sonia Sanchez
Apr 2000
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Plum Bun
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Dec 1999
Iola Leroy
Iola Leroy
Frances E. W. Harper
Dec 1999
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Proud Shoes
Pauli Murray
Aug 1999
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life
A Strange Freedom
Howard Thurman
Jul 1999
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
Restoring Hope
Cornel West
Jan 1999
The Healing
The Healing
Gayl Jones
Jan 1999
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Sonia Sanchez
Jan 1999
Renaissance
Renaissance
Ruth Forman
Dec 1998
Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America
Reaching Up for Manhood
Geoffrey Canada
Dec 1998
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Sonia Sanchez
Feb 1998
Does Your House Have Lions ?
Does Your House Have Lions ?
Sonia Sanchez
Jan 1998
Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak)
Jesus and the Disinherited
Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
Nov 1996
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality
My Soul is a Witness
Gloria Wade-Gayles
Oct 1996
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Testimony
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Jan 1995
Wasting America’s Future: The Children’s Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
Wasting America’s Future
Marian Wright Edelman
Oct 1994
We Are Young Magicians
We Are Young Magicians
Ruth Forman
Apr 1993
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Black Thunder
Arna Bontemps
Apr 1992
Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad
Making of the Whiteman
Paul Lawrence Guthrie
Jan 1992
Drugstore Cat
Drugstore Cat
Ann Petry
Sep 1988
Eva’s Man
Eva’s Man
Gayl Jones
Mar 1987
Great Slave Narratives
Great Slave Narratives
Arna Bontemps
Jan 1987
Heredity
Heredity
Patricia Storace
Jan 1987
East of Broadway
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East of Broadway
Raquel Cepeda
Jan 1970

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