Collection: History

A sweeping history of the African American struggle against police brutality, exposing how state violence underpins the capitalist economy and tracing the long resistance movement...

Artists from South Africa and Vietnam to Brazil and the Congo reckon with and reshape colonial and ethnographic photography More and more artists from beyond...

“A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful boldly explores...

Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground,...

Lead with Power. Lead with Care. Change Everything.Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women redefines what leadership looks like by honoring the distinctive, transformative approaches...

Celebrate Juneteenth with this empowering picture book!On June 19th, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were finally freed in Galveston, Texas. Every year, our community...

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the...

"We tell these parts of our stories in order to heal from hurt and honor the ways we have been healing."—Patrice Gopo, from the introduction Can Black...

"Exquisitely deep in vogue." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Kicking off a picture book series of LGBTQ+ biographies is this inspiring story of the incomparable dancer Willi Ninja,...

Celebrating eight decades of Camara's visionary totemic sculptures that visualize motifs of motherhood and ancestry Gathering select works completed between 1990 and 2022, this volume...

Desire Path explores how everyday life, memory, history, and politics work against and toward each other across communities and national boundaries. This collection pleats numerous lives:...

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and...

  Puerto Rico is often depicted as a "racial democracy" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaetón,...

The New York Times bestselling memoir now adapted for young adults! Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court,...

Let's keep the puzzle party going with more Black culture and pop history in this unique and engaging collection of crosswords for puzzlers of all...

A young model is catapulted from her life in Jamaica to the international world of high fashion in this tender, powerful novel about the distance...

In this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial...

Both an epic history and an intimate family story, a startling account of the lives of Black cops in one Midwestern city.In the wake of...

Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize Award and recognized as the best book of fiction in the 21st century by the New York Times, Edward P....

WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter...

“This incendiary j’accuse isn’t afraid to name names.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Indigeneity is caught between truth tellers and tricksters.…Dina Gilio-Whitaker boldly espouses our truths while confronting...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic exploration of the American compulsion toward cruelty and its expression through rituals of degradation for citizen and immigrant alike—from an award-winning writer...

Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists...