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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image—a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space, and reality to illuminate the expansiveness of Black femme lives....
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Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being “too much” and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves.It...
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Simply West African: Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen: A Cookbook
Experience the vibrant cuisines of West Africa any night of the week with 80 easy, accessible recipes from a James Beard Award–winning chef. “Chef Pierre Thiam offers an entry point into the cooking of a region that has been ignored by...
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Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
GMA’s 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine’s September 2023 Reads for the Rest of UsThe Millions “Most Anticipated” Books of 2023LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays,...
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The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR • Award-winning author and journalist Wil Haygood explores how the Vietnam War became a mirror for the struggle of Black Americans—fighting for freedom abroad while demanding equality at home—and a powerful lens...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY •...
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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters
One of NPR’s “Nonfiction Books We Love from 2025” • One of Kirkus’s “Best Nonfiction Books of 2025” •A powerful new voice, telling the American story through three generations of Black mothers."This searing, poetic memoir covers generations of powerful Black women...
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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations
The very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor—who draws on her decade of experiences observing the holiday.On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation,...
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The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Islands Food and Family with Over 100 Recipes
Kardea Brown, the breakout star of Food Network’s hit show Delicious Miss Brown celebrates the Gullah/Geechee culinary traditions of her family in this spectacular cookbook featuring 125 original mouthwatering recipes and gorgeous four-color photos. The Way Home brings a taste of the Lowcountry...
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/BiographyNamed one of the Best...
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We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
A WALL STREET JOURNAL FAVORITE FOOD BOOK OF THE EAR From the author of Queen Sugar—now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay—comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings...
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What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in...
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What Is African Art?: A Short History
A history of the evolving field of African art.This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a simple question: What do we mean when we talk about African art? By...
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
The untold story of the musical that revolutionized Broadway―and the Black artists who made it unforgettable. "This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant...
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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown
“Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn’t miss this for the world.”—Leslie Jones When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and...
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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees.The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan...
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Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”―Publishers Weekly“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas―theories, inventions, and fantasies―about what blackness is, and what it means. To read them is...
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Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In an intimate and...
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
From Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonates today.“In a time in which having a rich relationship with the truth...
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The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, sentenced to life in prison, refused to surrender his future—a story so powerful that it transformed even the judge who handed down the sentence. If our world were more just, Chris Young...
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The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods
The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, this sports biography chronicles when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation—a show of unparalleled dominance in the sport...
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Wake Up America: Black Women on the Future of Democracy
From the coeditor of the best-selling Four Hundred Souls, a galvanizing anthology for those seeking to build an inclusive democracy. In 1968, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer called for Americans to “wake up” if they wanted to “make democracy a...
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Yoruba Mythology: Stories of the Orisa from West Africa and the Diaspora
The first major work of Yoruba mythology, retelling hundreds of traditional tales of the Orisa, Yoruba Heroes, and Ijapa from West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil. Yoruba mythology is sacred to the religion and culture of the Yoruba people. A primarily...
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The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets—with urgent lessons for today"[P]owerful, revelatory. . . . [A]s a writer Nabugodi...
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A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!A deeply personal exploration of the generational impact of guns on the Black experience in AmericaA few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter,...
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You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and...
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander. In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander...
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Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER "A rich... retelling of King's life... a compelling account." — The Wall Street Journal "An engaging, detailed examination... that goes a long way in humanizing the American hero’s public image." — The Atlanta Journal Constitution...
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The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third ReconstructionIn The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history....
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it...
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