121 Books Published by Beacon Press — View an Alphabetized List

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