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Unearth the profound connection between health, spirituality, and our relationship with God by realizing that wellness is found in the harmony of our physical and spiritual lives. How we live, practice our faith, and think of God profoundly influences our...

An incisive, lyrical exploration of one family’s history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. "Fugitive Archives is a deeply moving and powerful account of America’s tortured landscape of race and class, all too often hidden behind the...

“This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet’s precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two interwoven tragedies few others could have lived through, much less written about with such clear-eyed candor.”—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars’ Club“Elegant and juicy ....

Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present...

One Black woman's transformative journey of running through griefIn the wake of profound grief at the loss of her mother, Tiffany Gayle Chenault decided, at age 40, to run a half-marathon in all 50 states. Black Woman Runner explores running as a space of...

From a dedicated member of Beyoncé’s “BeyHive”, an in-depth exploration of the lessons and affirmations of Beyoncé’s work and how she continues to speak for the historically unspoken forThis is not a Beyoncé biography. This is a love letter to...

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and scholar Kazim Ali, these poems span a prolific and...

As a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, at age 32, with big dreams and few tools to actualize them, he...

“If you read only one American history book this summer . . . make it David S. Reynolds’s Two Ships.” —George Will, Washington Post“Brilliant, provocative . . . Essential reading for today’s polarized times.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr."A dazzling survey of three...

Things can be much more than things.  Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car―and what happens when those objects change hands? In the buying and the selling of...

A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study“In Chet’la Sebree’s sensitive and tender hands, this book’s quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate...

The selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau.   Best known for his erotic lesbian fiction, Red Jordan Arobateau was also a prolific painter who maintained and self-published a journal for roughly twenty years,...

In 2021, the international media descended upon Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the centennial commemoration of the May 31–June 1, 1921, massacre in which a white mob killed more than three hundred African American residents, burned homes and businesses, and decimated a...

How should we remember George Washington’s entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington’s ties to slavery have vexed us. He enslaved more people than any of his...

A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just UsClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism,...