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Beacon Press

A Part of Unitarian Universalist Association

125 Books Published

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Publications List

Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance
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
Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
Boy Maybe: Poems
Boy Maybe: Poems
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: Essays
James Baldwin
Aug 2024
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
James Baldwin
Jul 2024
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
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
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
Meditations of the Heart
Meditations of the Heart
Howard Thurman
Jan 2023
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
The Birdcatcher
The Birdcatcher
Gayl Jones
Sep 2022
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
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