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A single mom who’s made a career of finding love for everyone else will put herself first this summer—if she can finally get real about...

An exciting social history encompassing music, culture, and real estate during the vital, artistically rich, and plain old fun period of the 1980s and ’90s...

How black gospel music crossed over, reshaped American popular music, and transformed the culture at large.Gospel music is the soundtrack of black Christian history, a...

With a foreword by Eric Clapton, the definitive story of the last great blues giant and how his fearless guitar style shaped rock ’n’ roll...

From the Orbis Pictus Award–winning duo behind Between the Lines—including nine-time Coretta Scott King Award recipient and four-time Caldecott Honor artist Bryan Collier—comes a powerful...

THE LIMITED EDITION BOX SET is a project started in 2014 to ensure the publication of up to a dozen chapbooks every year by African...

Across centuries, Black women have invented means to preserve what official history could not: friendship albums, kitchen-table philosophy, blogs, playlists, oral histories, and archives held...

From bestselling fiction author and renowned poet JJ Bola comes this enchanting picture book about finding your voice. Shy Girl dreams of singing, but whenever anyone...

One Black woman's journey to reclaim her faith, break free from church shame, and embrace spiritual empowerment. Desirée Elder knows what it means to be...

The new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing HalfYou might think that feuds are about hatred, but really they are love stories.When...

The BSC meets Black girlhood in a series about friendship, growing up, and learning to be true to yourself from New York Times bestselling author Brittney Cooper....

The intimate, extraordinary biography of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, America’s first Black female psychoanalyst—written by her own daughter and featuring a new afterwordBorn in 1914...

For readers of Nekesia Afia, Jacqueline Winspear, Avery Cunningham’s The Mayor of Maxwell Street, a thrilling, Harlem Renaissance-set mystery featuring a liberated, educated, Black woman...

We all need help sometimes, and together, we have everything we need.An uplifting story of found family, mutual aid, and communal care among neighbors.Auntie Lorna...

A carefree picture book about self-expression, much-loved possessions and being joyful whatever the weather. Kalila's favorite birthday present is a sunshine yellow rain poncho. She...

Who knew that tiny atoms had such big personalities? Science meets social skills in this fresh, accessible look at the bits of matter that make...

From black-eyed peas to mac n' cheese, the alphabet has never tasted this good. This ABC book is a joyful celebration of African American cuisine!...

Two exes reconnect after a family tragedy, but new secrets threaten their freshly rekindled passion in this heartfelt contemporary romance from the author of Getting His Game...

Decades after the melting of the ice caps, a mysterious girl named Eve awakes in secret and must face a world that’s nothing like the...

Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the history and cultural significance of the color yellow. From a...

Powerful and uplifting, this lyrical story from an acclaimed illustrator follows a solitary tree through the patient, wondrous ways nature endures—reminding readers that life always...

A picture book biography of beloved Chinese American photographer Corky Lee, written by APALA-award winner Julie Leung.In the 1960s, young Chinese American Corky Lee flips...

The extraordinary biography of Salif Keïta, a Malian singer born with albinism, who overcame all odds to become a musical and social justice icon reminding all who...

Ramadan Mubarak! Explore the shapes of Ramadan in this joyful and stylish board book celebrating the holy month.Ramadan is a special month when Muslim families...