Collection: History

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100...

  For centuries, Black artists across the African diaspora have been architects of cultural innovation, resilience, and transformation. Their art, music, literature, and activism have...

  A new reissue of the acclaimed collection of essays blurring cultural criticism, memoir, even nonfiction itself, from the beloved Pulitzer Prize winner.White Girls is about,...

A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America...

Residual textures, patterns and structures of the abandoned Ebony and Jet offices represent both the spirit of a Black publishing empire and the sense of its loss Home to...

Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders' violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction,...

In this deeply personal book, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times. In close readings...

Discover the visionary legacy of the groundbreaking architect Paul R. Williams, one of the first Black members of the American Institute of Architects. Paul R....

An eloquent and original exploration of the Atlantic slave trade—now featuring the essay “Venus in Two Acts” and a new introduction by Dionne Brand.A monumental...

In her first nonfiction book, New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Xochitl Gonzalez traces her own history from working class Brooklyn to the corridors...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times“Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This...

Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation...

  Dionne Lee (born in New York, 1988) works across photography, video, and collage to examine histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity in...

After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film...

Roshanak Kheshti opens her book with a line from one of Zora Neale Hurston's earliest stories: "we see with the skin." From this brief but...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Black periodical editors roved across oceans and between empires, bearing newspaper texts, formats, and genres with them. As...

Cuba in the 1970s was a beacon of Third World liberation--and a sanctuary for US radicals on the run. Fugitive States is the true story of Charlie...

Out of the Great Dismal Swamp, a huge morass of swampland straddling the Virginia and North Carolina eastern seaboard, there emerged a distinct culture of...

From theatrical costumes to leather accessories and jewelry, Saar's early wearable artworks are as transformative as her assemblages Organized around Betye Saar's early work in...

On March 24, 1965, Nina Simone performed at a rally for twenty-five thousand people on the last night of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights...

Today, Brazil is home to both some of the strongest trans rights protections and the highest rates of transphobic murders in Latin America. To explain...

The little-known heroes behind Motown’s greatest hits are finally heard in this moving memoir filled with the rich historical atmosphere and emotional resonance of Hidden Figures,...

Writings on the new international subcultures of print on demand Print on demand has revolutionized publishing. Digital printing and online platforms such as Blurb, Lulu...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s...