Jay Ellis, star of HBO’s Insecure, tells the story of growing up with an imaginary best friend you will never forget—part Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, part Will Smith from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—in this hilarious, vulnerable memoir.“So funny, poignant, and personal. I...

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in...

She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most...

Read about the contributions of African Americans to American history that cannot be overstated. Blacklegacypress.org celebrates these towering figures in American history and indeed in world history such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson,...

Read about the contributions of African Americans to American history that cannot be overstated. Blacklegacypress.org celebrates these towering figures in American history and indeed in world history such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson,...

Read about the contributions of African Americans to American history that cannot be overstated. Blacklegacypress.org celebrates these towering figures in American history and indeed in world history such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson,...

Read about the contributions of African Americans to American history that cannot be overstated. Blacklegacypress.org celebrates these towering figures in American history and indeed in world history such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson,...

“On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist beautifully outlines . . . what it means to seek the truth. It gave me a new faith in the power of reporting.” —Oprah WinfreyThe recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward...

A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the Grammy Award– winning country music sensation and multiplatinum-selling lead singer of Hootie & The Blowfish In 1986 Darius Rucker cofounded Hootie & The Blowfish at the University of South Carolina. What began...

Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan...

The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow. In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on...

An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year“A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel.” —The New York Times“A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal...

Starting with the viral poem “Crossing Half of China to Fuck You,” Yu Xiuhua’s raw collection in Fiona Sze-Lorrain's translation chronicles her life as a disabled, divorced, single mother in rural China.Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian...

A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021 insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to...