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The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens Scubie Albie 9798374113518 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published This collection of poems is my life stretch in plain sight, I feel it so well Oliver ...
Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens
Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil 9781734580273 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing Originally published by Organic Weapon Arts in 201...
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery Kehinde Wiley 9781857096774 Nonfiction National Gallery London National Gallery London Presenting new work by American artist Kehinde Wiley, as he explores the Eu...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Alice Walker 9780063346840 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman,...
Evan Ross - The "Gardens of the Night" Interview
Evan Ross - The "Gardens of the Night" Interview Kam Williams Interview Evan Olaf Ross was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on August 26, 1988 to pop diva Diana Ross and N...
Hayward Gallery Publishing
Hayward Gallery Publishing Hayward Gallery Publishing Hayward Gallery Publishing
Franklin Street Gallery Productions
Franklin Street Gallery Productions Franklin Street Gallery Productions Franklin Street Gallery Productions
National Gallery London
National Gallery London National Gallery London National Gallery London
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC
Franklin Street Gallery Productions
Franklin Street Gallery Productions Franklin Street Gallery Productions Franklin Street Gallery Productions
Hayward Gallery Publishing
Hayward Gallery Publishing Hayward Gallery Publishing Hayward Gallery Publishing
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
National Gallery London
National Gallery London National Gallery London National Gallery London
Yvonne Bynoe
Yvonne Bynoe NONE Yvonne Bynoe is an acclaimed author, cultural critic, and founder of the popular online art platform, @SHELOVESBLACKART. She made her curatorial debut in 2022, focusing on lost or e...
"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson
"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson Melvin Tolson 9780813918655 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recogni...
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery Patrick Diamond 9781732048270 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published T...
The Waving Gallery
The Waving Gallery Mervyn Taylor 9781848613300 Poetry Shearsman Books Shearsman Books "In The Waving Gallery, Mervyn Taylor continues his poetic journey through the paces of the human predicament. The...
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures Brandon Taylor 9780593332368 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the Booker Prize Finalist and Bestselling Author: A Perceptive Novel About a Gay Black Painter Naviga...
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware 9780063272415 Nonfiction Harper Design HarperCollins “This can’t be real.” Surely, someone must have gotten carri...
Paul Von Blum
Paul Von Blum NONE Paul Von Blum is a Senior Lecturer at UCLA with a rich history in African American Studies and Communication Studies. Since 1968, he has taught at UC Berkeley and UCLA. An esteemed...
Kimberly Drew
Kimberly Drew 0000000495858893 Kimberly Drew is a passionate writer, curator, and activist with a focus on art, fashion, and cultural studies. She's the Social Media Manager at The Met, a board membe...
The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts Tiya Miles 9780593596425 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwine...
The Shadows Gallery
The Shadows Gallery Lamar Giles 9781461115830 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC You’ve been invited to the opening of a grand exhibition, a show unlike any you’ve ever seen. Inside you migh...
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose Alice Walker 9780156028646 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ...
Mahogany Gallery & Cultural Center
Mahogany Gallery & Cultural Center Rancine WI A premier art gallery, event space, bookstore featuring works by black American artists, and other artists of African descent.
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art
Feminism: Women and Womxn in British Art Bernardine Evaristo 9781849767163 Nonfiction Tate Publishing (UK) Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Feminism by Booker Prize–winning author Bernardine Evarist...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...
Irene Luxbacher
Irene Luxbacher 0000000078506870 Irene Luxbacher is a renowned Canadian artist, author, and children's book illustrator. With degrees in Art History and Fine Art, she has gained acclaim through her a...
Katie Dorame
Katie Dorame NONE Katie Dorame, a Tongva artist of mixed Indigenous and European American heritage, focuses on Indigenous representation and Hollywood narratives. She has exhibited her work nationall...
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion Antwaun Sargent 9781597114684 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curat...
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe 0000000083215402 Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, born in 1951, is a renowned artist with exhibitions worldwide, including at MoMA and the Whitney. Her work has been featured in Life,...
Kehinde Wiley A Portrait of a Young Gentleman
Kehinde Wiley A Portrait of a Young Gentleman Kehinde Wiley 9781646570201 Nonfiction Huntington Library Press Huntington Library Press Presenting Kehinde Wiley’s hotly anticipated response to a legend...
Greenwood Art Project
Greenwood Art Project NONE The Greenwood Art Project, an initiative of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre Centennial Commission, aims to unite Tulsa through art, raising awareness of Greenwood's history and the...
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas Halima Taha 9780966035285 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Art enthusiasts and lovers of American art have long conside...
Black Artists Shaping the World: Picture Book Edition
Black Artists Shaping the World: Picture Book Edition Sharna Jackson 9780500653401 Nonfiction Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson Through fourteen stories, this picture book edition of the multi-award-win...
Baba Wagué Diakité
Baba Wagué Diakité 0000000121436557 Baba Wagué Diakité, a Mali-born artist, found his roots in drawing before discovering claywork when he moved to the US. He has had numerous solo and group exhibi...
Rafael López
Rafael López 0000000430746276 Rafael López is a renowned illustrator of NYT bestsellers and award-winning books. He's won Pura Belpré medals and other prestigious awards, including the Tomás River...
America, My Love, America, My Heart
America, My Love, America, My Heart Daria Peoples 9780062993298 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins America, do you love me? Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answe...
African Empires in Ancient America
African Empires in Ancient America Clyde Winters 9780615796581 Nonfiction Uthman dan Fodio Institute Uthman dan Fodio Institute African Empires in Ancient America tells the story of the numerous Afric...
Pamela C. Rice
Pamela C. Rice NONE Pamela C. Rice is an acclaimed children's author and illustrator with over 25 books to her credit. Notable for her artistic collaborations and warm illustrations, Rice's works dra...
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780674919228 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A ...
The Case of the Chaos Monster: An Elemental Detectives Adventure
The Case of the Chaos Monster: An Elemental Detectives Adventure Patrice Lawrence 9780702315633 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. A stunningly imagined, action-packed fantasy adventure for fans o...
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa Michael D. Harris 9780295979335 Nonfiction Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum of California "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exc...
Keith Mallett
Keith Mallett 0000000033964456 Keith Duncan Mallett, born in 1948, is a prominent artist trained in New York City. He spent 15 years as the in-house artist for Frontline Art Publishers and now works ...
Grace Aneiza Ali
Grace Aneiza Ali NONE Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator, Assistant Professor, and Provost Fellow at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She specializes in socially engaged art, global contemporary art, and C...
Halima Taha
Halima Taha NONE Halima Taha is a renowned advocate for African and African-American art, known for her educational initiatives and influential writings. Her contributions have spearheaded recognitio...
Mood Makers Books & Art Gallery Village Gate Square
Mood Makers Books & Art Gallery Village Gate Square Rochester NY
Connie Schofield-Morrison
Connie Schofield-Morrison NONE Connie Schofield-Morrison, a mother, author, and entrepreneur co-runs Morrison Graphics, an art gallery in Atlanta, with her husband. She manages both her family and bu...
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness Ashanté M. Reese 9781324076469 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A vibrant new vision of food justice that cel...
Khalif Thompson
Khalif Thompson NONE “…my work is a pure and consummate search for who I am…” Khalif Tahir Thompson, born in 1995, is a renowned artist whose work has been showcased in prest...
My Soul Has Grown Deep
My Soul Has Grown Deep Cheryl Finley 9781588396099 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20t...
Benny Andrews
Benny Andrews 0000000066753102 Benny Andrews (1930-2006) was an American painter, printmaker, and educator known for his expressionist style. Born and raised in Georgia, he was the first in his famil...
Black Light
Black Light Kehinde Wiley 9781576874868 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Kehinde Wiley painted President Obama’s official portrait and this is an early book from him documenting his extrao...
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life Kim McLarin 9781632460790 Nonfiction Ig Publishing Ig Publishing Womanish. (Opp. of "girlish," i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A blac...
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art Kellie Jones 9780822348733 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Kell...
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement Sharon Ewell Foster 9780996870702 Nonfiction C. M. Williams & Associates Press C. M. Williams & Associates Press America is losing ground in the gl...
Soledad O’Brien - The “Who Is Black in America?” (Black in America 5) Interview
Soledad O’Brien - The “Who Is Black in America?” (Black in America 5) Interview Kam Williams Interview Soledad O’Brien The “Who Is Black in America?” Interview Soledad O’Brien is the anchor fo...
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Wendy Jones 9781946348036 Nonfiction Ida Bell Publishing Ida Bell Publishing There is no one movie, song, or book that will make these troubled times d...
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over Nell Irvin Painter 9781640090613 Nonfiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick: 1 of 34 Titles to Wave a Flag About "Old in...
E. B. Lewis
E. B. Lewis 0000000367331472 E.B. Lewis, an award-winning illustrator, has worked on over 70 children's books. Inspired by his uncles, he developed his artistic skills from a young age and later spec...
Philemona Williamson
Philemona Williamson NONE Philemona Williamson, a renowned contemporary artist based in New Jersey, is known for her solo shows and group exhibitions. Her work, often exploring interpersonal relation...
Siku
Siku 0000000065618187 Siku is a multifaceted British artist, author, theologian, and musician, renowned for his comic book/concept art. He has worked with 2000AD, Marvel UK, and COM X, producing nota...
Jenin Mohammed
Jenin Mohammed NONE Jenin Mohammed, a talented illustrator from Florida, is renowned for her humorous and captivating art. Winner of the 2020 Summer Spectacular Illustration Grand Prize, her unique s...
Ezra Jack Keats
Ezra Jack Keats 0000000370477827 Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) was a pioneering children's book author and illustrator known for introducing multiculturalism into mainstream American literature. Despit...
Danny Simmons
Danny Simmons 000000011447538X AALBC Mourns the Passing of Danny Simmons Daniel “Danny” Simmons is a globally recognized abstract-expressionist painter with works in prominent establishments like the ...
Jennifer Cruté
Jennifer Cruté NONE Comic artist and writer Jennifer Cruté, known for her work in BITCH magazine and a Glyph Comic Award nominee, has lectured at several institutions, exhibited her work at various ...
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe
An Investigation and Study of the White People of America and Western Europe Tony Rose 9781937269487 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications Group FROM THE INTRODUCTION - AN INVESTI...
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance James Baldwin 9781636811321 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in h...
William Blake And Slavery: Mind-Forg’d Manacles
William Blake And Slavery: Mind-Forg’d Manacles David Bindman and Darryl Pinckney 9781853322594 Nonfiction Hayward Gallery Publishing Hayward Gallery Publishing The English poet and artist William Bla...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
America I AM: A Journal
America I AM: A Journal Kam Williams Book Review "’Would America have been America without her Negro people?’ The question posed by W.E.B. Du Bois serves as the underlying theme for ...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
Little Black Dress
Little Black Dress André Leon Talley 9780847840571 Nonfiction Skira Rizzoli A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue con...
Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes Don Tate 9781419749438 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousin...
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics
Art on My Mind: Visual Politics bell hooks 9781565842632 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about produc...
Kah Yangni
Kah Yangni NONE Kah Yangni, a Philadelphia-based illustrator, creates art focusing on justice, queerness, and joy. With work featured by The New York Times, Vice Media, and in the Philadelphia Museum...
2016: Obama’s America
2016: Obama’s America Dinesh Sharma 2016-obamas-america.jpg Film Review 2016: Obama’s America (2012) In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Limited PG, 1 hr. 29 min. Documentary, Special Interest D...
Solving The Race Issue In America
Solving The Race Issue In America H. J. Harris 9781890199074 Nonfiction New Paradigm Publishing New Paradigm Publishing The Top 7 Areas to Be Examined in Solving the Race Issue in America Paradigm Pub...
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing Tara Pringle Jefferson 9780063377875 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates t...
In My Grandmother’s House (paperback): Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit
In My Grandmother’s House (paperback): Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit Yolanda Pierce 9781506484662 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media "In a world eager to promote the newest wu...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...
Hoops: Poems
Hoops: Poems Major Jackson 9780393330373 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Lush reflections on ordinary lives, displaying “formal talents and [Jackson’s] capacity for expandin...
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Monica L. Miller 9781588397997 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art...
This Is What I Know about Art
This Is What I Know about Art Kimberly Drew 9780593095188 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. ...
Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South
Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South Kinshasha Conwill and Arthur C. Danto 9780810944848 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Speaking powerfully and directly to a growing aud...
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing Little Rock AR Established in 1988 as the Pyramid Gallery was born from a passion for and appreciation of Black Art and culture. The business has brought enrichmen...
Lynda Koolish
Lynda Koolish NONE Lynda Koolish, a photographer and literature scholar, captures the essence of writers she admires through her deeply collaborative and personal work. Her artistry involves paying a...
C&B Books Distribution
C&B Books Distribution Troy Johnson Article http://www.cbbooksdistribution.com/ C&B Books Distribution started out as an online bookstore. Our mission was to sell books at a discount p...
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival Jabari Asim 9781250174536 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art ...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
My Journey with Maya
My Journey with Maya Tavis Smiley with David Ritz 9780316341776 Nonfiction Little, Brown Paperbacks Hachette Book Group A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Ta...
Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table
Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table André Leon Talley 9781614282938 Nonfiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing As fashion editor and friend André Leon Talley writes in the introduction,...
K. Ancrum
K. Ancrum NONE Kayla. Ancrum is an author of award-winning contemporary YA. Notably The Wicker King, Icarus, and most recently The Corruption of Hollis Brown. K. is a Chicago native passionate about...
Ekua Holmes
Ekua Holmes 0000000451226536 Ekua Holmes is a painter and collage artist who uses various materials to create vibrant, abstract works that convey unity and evoke universal memories. Her ongoing serie...
Making Art
Making Art Diana Ejaita 9780593660157 Fiction Rise X Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House A celebration of the many ways we make art, spanning mediums, geography, and resources from author-artist Dia...
The Art Of Mackin’
The Art Of Mackin’ Tariq Nasheed 9780971135338 Nonfiction King Flex Ent King Flex Ent “A Classic” —New York Times Book Review Before great books such as The Mystery Methodby Mystery , The Game by Neil...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Rudy Chiappini and Jean-Michel Basquiat 9788876242649 Nonfiction Skira Rizzoli Controversial cult artist, enfant terrible of the art world, friend of Haring and Warhol, and both...
Brett T. Brown
Brett T. Brown NONE Brett Tyler Brown, born in 1997, is a talented self-taught artist inspired by Chicago's architecture. His passion for art extends to architecture, animation, and writing. He wrote...