125 Books by Beacon Press

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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Who’s Qualified?
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History
The Radical King (King Legacy)
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Fist Stick Knife Gun (Graphic Novel): A Personal History of Violence
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
Reaching Up for Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America
Wounded in the House of A Friend (Bluestreak)
Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington
All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
God’s Country (2024)
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Morning Haiku
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (Revised)
Does Your House Have Lions ?
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Wasting America’s Future: The Children’s Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
Boy Maybe: Poems
Iola Leroy
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy)
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality
Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home
Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Race Matters (hardcover)
Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Case for Black Reparations
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma
“All Labor Has Dignity”
Great Slave Narratives
Corregidora
The Birdcatcher
Palmares
We Are Young Magicians
Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Song For Anninho
Kindred
Mosquito
A Black Women’s History of the United States
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
A Black Queer History of the United States
Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations In An Era Of School Resegregation
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Sonia Sanchez Collected Poems
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students (King Legacy)
Meditations of the Heart
Renaissance
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Eva’s Man
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
The Healing
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
The Unicorn Woman
A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America
Heredity
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Here I Stand
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)
Watershed (2024)
Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn: Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black And Latin Game
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? (King Legacy)
Notes of a Native Son
You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History Of Our Times
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)
Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans
Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities
Jesus and the Disinherited
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
Like One of The Family
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land
Why We Can’t Wait (King Legacy)
Nothing Personal
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
The Condemnation of Little B.
Drugstore Cat
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century
Black Prophetic Fire