Collection: History

How hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black...

In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A...

Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African...

One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in AmericaA haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her...

A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning...

Includes an All-New Afterword.The definitive account of America’s most horrific racial massacre, told in a compelling and unflinching narrative. The Burning is essential reading as America finally...

“It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s...

This chapter book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of...

The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African...

Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems,...

The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered...

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ...

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and "riots"...

A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”―Boston Globe Telling...

Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action in this searing indictment of America’s historical, deadly, and continuing assault on Black and...

Iconic chef and world-renowned opera singer Alexander Smalls marries two of his greatest passions―food and music―in Meals, Music, and Muses. More than just a cookbook, Smalls...

The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the PBS series.“Absolutely brilliant...A necessary and moving work.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again“Engaging. . . . In...

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER and NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEEFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon...

For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the very first Broadway show with an all-Black cast and...

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is...

An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé.Daphne A. Brooks explores more than...