Collection: Staff Picks

The compelling memoir that explores race, cultural representation, Black media’s legacy, privilege, and identity from VIBE’s founding fashion editor and CNN correspondent Michaela Angela Davis.As VIBE’s founding...

An allegorical love story — a modern day Alchemist meets The Never Ending Story —set in a world where a book shopkeeper becomes a reluctant matchmaker, bringing soulmates together through books. It’s Me They Follow is an...

An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Life of the Party is an archive and annotation...

A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly...

"I wish I didn't know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland..."   Eleven-year-old Delphine is like...

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to...

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day Gender and...

A visual celebration of André Leon Talley’s life that centers his personal style as a lens on his contributions to fashion history.This lavish volume reflects on...

NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. “If you haven’t yet...

From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird comes a masterful story that asks: What if the different...

For the first time in a deluxe, hardcover collector's edition, the landmark post-apocalyptic trilogy from the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and...

Hotly anticipated and destined to be an essential for the sneaker and streetwear hype crowd, this is the first book on and by Bembury, whose...

Get to know tennis legend Serena Williams with this collectible Little Golden Book, which tells her inspiring life story alongside gorgeous full-color illustrations!Serena changed the...

Exploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Aperture's Summer issue highlights image makers around the world...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did...

Known as 'the angriest black man in America', Malcolm X was one of the most famous activists to ever live. Going beyond biography, Black Minded...

An instant New York Times bestseller, a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for...

A Lie built a House of Oppression. The Bitter Truth will burn it down. It is 1964, the height of the Civil Rights Movement. A group...

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD"Puts a monstrous face on bigotry and a beautiful new spin on the Harlem Renaissance." —The AV ClubIn the 1920s, the...

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times...

The first museum survey for artist, writer and publisher Kandis Williams, whose cross-disciplinary practice delineates issues surrounding race, nationalism and authority American artist Kandis Williams...

Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth over board one-piece case with gifty trim, case stamping with...

A boy says farewell to a loved one as he imagines her walking on into her next journey, a moving and superbly illustrated story about...

Tamura Lomax offers an insurgent feminist love letter to Black girls, women, mothers, and othermothers in which she outlines a radical dream that will allow...