Collection: Non-Fiction

  From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home....

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism In the 1920s and '30s, Upper Manhattan became the center...

A social activist, journalist, public theologian, and international speaker who has become a powerful and brilliant voice of her generation offers a bold path to...

  For Readers of Heavy, Punch Me Up to The Gods, and A Little Devil in America, a beautiful, painful, and soaring tribute to everything that Black men...

Black Firsts in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on more than 200 extraordinary achievements by Black Angelenos. Black Firsts highlights the oft unheralded accomplishments of Black Angelenos...

From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, "elegant" (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into...

In the vein of the hugely popular Catch Me If You Can, and soon to be a movie and documentary on Netflix, comes the riveting story...

  For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As...

  From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the...

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress...

A sweeping and poignant history of community response to the violence of white supremacy and carceral systems in the US, told through interviews, archival reproductions,...

An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in...

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level....

  A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian...

In the first middle grade offering from Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, young readers are introduced to the remarkable and true-life story of...

A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. Since photography's invention, black life has been presented as...

From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives readers evidence-based tools and techniques to communicate more effectively with children...

The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of...

In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the United States...

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white...