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Book one of the Earthseed series. When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California...
Paperback
The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July...
Hardcover
The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what...
Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly. So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation...
Book two of the Earthseed series. This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in...
Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the love of her mother and...
Board Books
Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants...
This “transgressive, provocative, and brilliant” (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom’s position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on...
Nine-year-old Jayden loves the outdoors, but his mother is nervous about him playing in their neighborhood. With the help of his neighbor...
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of...
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic....
A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of...
Today would be special. Today would be splendid. It was Saturday! But sometimes, the best plans don't work out exactly the way...
What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door?...
A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba. “Organizing is both...
When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the...
Xenogenesis
Lilith’s Brood
Lorde, best known for her [poetry] and essays, leaves us with this ... autobiography of her early years as a writer, and...
"I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don't fear change coming, And so I sing along." In this...
In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical...
Book two of the Xenogenesis trilogy. After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether...
A delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. This...
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through...
Set in a town somewhere in the South, here is the story of a community of black people searching for the healing...
This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales...
What can you do with ten black dots? One dot can make a sun, two dots can make the eyes of a...
Boardbook
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for...
In this illuminating memoir, a renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both...
Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These...
Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted...
My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from...
Everybody in the red brick building was asleep. Until . . . WaaaAAH! Rraak! Wake up! Pitter patter STOMP! Pssheew! A chain...
The quiet and noisy, wintery and sometimes sunny poems in "The Sun is So Quiet" will always make you smile. Nikki Giovanni...
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible...
Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism's engagement with intersectionality, contending that black feminists should let go of their possession and policing of...
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...
America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the...
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University,...
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...
When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve...
In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance....
Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about...
Who do you suppose has such fine toes? So brown and sweet. Who could have such darling feet? Snuggle with a child...
Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect...
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who...
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. High...
Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses toward the scrumptious...
This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan, Glenis...
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. How to Slowly...
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