A new book that traces the rise of Black empowerment politics in the United States and Africa.

This powerful meditation, inspired by Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar.

The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s—and its legacy today.

February—a month of history and heritage, of celebrating the creative resilience of the African Diaspora, a month of going back to roots, of loving self and others, of the return of poetic legends.

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day. Gender and sexual expression have always been part of the Black freedom struggle.

In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue. A finalist for the Pen Open Book Award!

Join Flannery O'Connor Award winner Toni Ann Johnson for the release of her new collection of linked short stories, which explores the sometimes painful and often humorous experiences of the Arringtons as an upper-middle-class Black family in a predominantly white, working-class community.

A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable