Black Owned Publishing Companies
We are in the process of reviewing the more than 2,500 imprints in our database to identify all of the ones owned by people of African descent, so this list will grow beyond the 159 listed below. If you know of a publisher not listed, please enter their name in the comments below.
In the spirit of #ReadingBlack visit the pages of these publishers and check out the book they are offering. For many, Like Black Classic Press and Just Us Books, the buy button provides links directly to their websites.
Also check out top 100 publisher imprints, based upon total number of bestselling books.
- 220 Communications
- 3 Sisters Books
- 310 Brown Street
- 7 Figure Publications
- A & B Book Dist Inc
- A New Quality Publishing
- A&B Publishers Group
- AALBC.com
- acVernon Menchan
- Adiva Publishing
- Africa Research and Publications
- Africa World Press
- African American Images
- African Books Collective
- African Bureau Stories
- Afrikan World Books
- Amber Books
- Amber Communications Group, Inc.
- Amh Publishers
- Ashay by the Bay
- Aspicomm Books
- Betty Dopson
- BlaccStarr Media Group
- Black Academy Press, Incorporated
- Black Alchemist Press
- Black Bayou Press
- Black Bird Press
- Black Butterfly Childrens’ Books
- Black Classic Press
- Black Diva Publishing
- Black Pearl Books
- Black Think Tank
- Blacksmith Books
- BlackWords
- BLF Press
- Blue Nile Press
- Brand Nu Words
- Broadside Press
- Brown Girl Press
- Brown Girls Books
- Capital BookFest Books
- Cassava Republic Press
- CEMOTAP Publications
- College Press Publishers
- Conscious Culture Publishing
- Cushcity Communications
- Cushite Press
- Dadielte Production
- Dare Books
- Dark Corner Publishing
- David Rivera Jr.
- Delphine Publications
- Denise Bolds
- Diasporic Africa Press
- Disilgold
- Dogon Village Books
- Drum and Spear Press
- Duho Books
- Eighty-One Publishing Group
- Eleviv Publishing Group
- EVO Universe
- F C N Publishing Co.
- Faith Knight
- Farrah Gray Publishing, Inc.
- Florence Anthony
- Genesis Press
- Ghettoheat
- GhettoLectual Publishing
- Good2go Publishing
- Granity Studios
- Griots Republic
- Harlem World Publishing
- Helga Rogers
- Howard University Press
- Hunter Publishing Group
- I AM Media Books
- Ian Randle Publishers
- J.T. Smith Publishing
- Jacquelin Thomas Presents
- Jesse B. Creative
- Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
- Just Us Books
- Karen Hunter Media
- Karibu Books
- Kennerson Books
- King Productions
- La Caille Nous
- LadyLit Press
- Laughing Black Vampire Productions
- Life Changing Books
- Lit Noire Publishing
- Loban Originals
- Lotus Press
- Lushena Books
- M.W. Moore Publications
- Mahogany Star Publishing
- Manisy WIllows Books
- Margaret Johnson-Hodge
- Marguerite Press
- Marimba Books
- Max Publishing
- Melanin Origins LLC
- Memoir Maven
- Mildred C Smith
- Mildred C. Smith
- Monda Media, Inc.
- Monica F Anderson
- Moore Black Press
- Mosaic Literary Magazine
- Ms. Frosty Publishing Company
- My Bible Culture
- Nation of Islam
- New Beacon Books Ltd
- NewSeason Books
- Nia Communications
- Official Writers League
- One Moore Book
- Pan African Publishers
- Path Press
- Pen 2 Pen Publishing
- Phillywriter.com, LLC
- Pines One Publications
- Poets Pay Rent, Too
- Positive Urban Literature
- Présence Africaine
- Professional Publishing House
- Publishing Associates
- Q-Boro Books
- RedBone Press
- REGI Books
- Relentless Content
- Runagate Multimedia
- Sadorian Publications
- Sandra A. Ottey
- Sankofa Books
- Sarah Gordon Weathersby
- Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series
- Seaburn
- Seeing Black Press
- Soulfire Books
- Teri Woods Publishing
- The Cartel Publications
- The Elombe Brath Foundation
- The Harlem River Press
- The Majority Press
- The Pantheon Collective (TPC)
- The Red Sea Press
- Third World Press
- Triple Crown Publications
- United Brothers
- Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson
- Very Puzzled
- Villarosa Media
- Voonderbar! Books
- Wahida Clark Presents Publishing
- Word of Mouth Books
- Writers and Readers Publishing
- Writersandpoets.com
- Wyatt Tee Walker