Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Rhythm & Fire: A Life in Harmony with Earth, Wind & Fire
"As a member of EWF during its heyday, Johnson was arguably the band’s most important member...A gentle reminiscence about a hard-driving pop act."—Kirkus ReviewsJust as Questlove's 2026 HBO documentary Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of...
$32.00
Black Girls Om Too: Yoga, Embodied Resistance, and Healing
Contributions by Irene Auma, Joi Cardwell, Shanina Carmichael, Lacretia “Cre” Dye, Love Ashleie Elaine, Jo-Jo Totayhma Jackson, Saisha Lacon Baskerville, Sariane Leigh, Tamia A. McEwen, Donna Noble, Jewell Singletary, and Linda N. WellsBlack Girls Om Too focuses on Black yoginis and...
$55.00
Residual
Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being. In the long...
$20.00
Renaissance of a Boss: Notes from a Creative Reawakening (Original)
Iconic rapper, entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author Rick Ross gives his readers an indispensable guide to creativity, reinvention and greatness -- the perfect book to read alongside Ross's new album SET IN STONE.It's been nearly twenty years since Rick Ross...
$30.00
Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days
The first fully illustrated history of Juneteenth and other Emancipation Day celebrations, told through photographs, art, and an engrossing narrative from an award-winning historian. For more than 150 years, Black communities have gathered to honor freedom, resilience, and the ongoing struggle...
$35.00
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World
"Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Johnson probes the origins of this American classic, the struggles Haley experienced in more than 12 years of research and seeking publication, the challenges to its authenticity, and its eventual...
$26.00
Black Film: A History of Black Representation and Participation in the Movies
An illustrated history that celebrates the legacy of Black actors, films, and filmmakers from the silent era through today and explores the deeply embedded racism of the film industry, from the award-winning author of The Black Panther PartyIn Black Film, Eisner Award-winning...
$25.00
Remember the Times: A Memoir
Grammy Award–winning R&B and hip-hop legend Teddy Riley recounts his journey from growing up in the projects in Harlem to inventing the genre New Jack Swing, selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, and creating music for Michael Jackson, Snoop...
$29.00
Black Evidence: A History and a Warning
A fierce exposé of the resistance to believing Black people and its devastating effects throughout American history. From Reconstruction to Redemption, from the enactment of landmark civil rights legislation to the execution of the Southern strategy, from 2020’s multiracial protests...
$32.00
The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
$30.00
The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
The dramatic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man's account of love in the time of war, by a celebrated historian of untold Black storiesOn the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris....
$30.00
Black Designers in Chicago: Culture and Community in the Twentieth Century
A richly illustrated book focused on Black designers, how they shaped the history of modern design, and how their designs in turn influenced modern Black life. In twentieth-century Chicago, generations of Black artisans, craftspeople, art educators, clothing makers, commercial illustrators, sign...
$38.00
Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America
Amazon Editors' Pick - Best History Books of MayWe all feel it, the teetering toward a place in America from which there is no return. The battle to remain hopeful in spite of injustice after injustice. In this powerful story...
$31.00
Black Aces: Essential Stories from Hockey's Black Trailblazers
An essential collection of stories from notable Black hockey players, personalities and peopleThe game of hockey has long been considered a predominantly white sport in nearly every facet of its being. But if you look through the annals of the...
$28.00
Reckoning the Racial Reckoning: From Backlash to Accountability After George Floyd
The demise of the 'racial reckoning' that followed George Floyd's death in 2020 occurred without definition, scrutiny or attempts to revive it. In this compelling new book, David Dante Troutt explores the 'what,' 'so what' and 'now what' of this...
$28.00
Birth of a Culture
Step into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began. Birth of a Culture gives you a front-row seat to the origins of hip-hop, told through the firsthand experiences of Grandmaster Flash—one of the...
$30.00
The Real Ones: How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic
Top political strategist Maya Rupert reveals how, for people of color, being real comes at a cost and authenticity is a privilege the marginalized cannot afford—that is, unless we change the system that keeps sending us the bill. . .One...
$30.00
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
An engaging investigation of how thirteen key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely.Over the course of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment natural historians and classifiers redefined what it meant...
$40.00
Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition
Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole blazed paths that salvaged socially conscious rap at a pivotal time in history.Conscious rap, a subgenre of hip-hop music that engages in dialogue about social and political issues and often challenges systems of oppression, ascended...
$55.00
The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
This infuriating and compelling read offers a devastating analysis of one of Amerca's most pressing systemic issues. Why has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing...
$24.00
A Proxy Africa: Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gaining independence in 1966...
$35.00
Promise/Threat: Poems
After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award–winning poet makes his highly anticipated return—with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American...
$28.00
Project Tiger: The Birth of Genius and the Price of Greatness
Discover Tiger Woods’s childhood path to dominance and the origins of his downfall.There are two Tiger Woods: the man who won fifteen majors and broke numerous golf records, and the billionaire whose personal flaws destroyed his reputation. But there is...
$30.00
Behold
Born of the poet’s longstanding love of visual art, especially painting, Behold examines why we love what we love, and how we see (and are seen) by art. When we say we “saw” something, McCallum asks, what is it that we saw—outside...
$22.00
Prince's Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place
When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn’t reconcile how Prince’s funky disco-pop sounds had hailed from a place like Minneapolis. But the Minneapolis Sound, Prince’s signature pop-musical fusion...
$25.00
Behind the Desk at the Main: A Librarian's Memoir
From a celebrated librarian and public historian, a memoir about the promise of public libraries in a fractured world. "This wonderful book appeals to the heart as well as to the mind, challenging the dark times we live in." —Azar...
$28.00
Prince: Black, White, Color
Marking the 10th anniversary of Prince’s death, Prince by Steve Parke reveals a stunning collection of exclusive photographs by the singer’s own award-winning photographer and art director, Steve Parke.Prince. Visionary, multi-instrumentalist and extraordinary showman. One of the most influential and inspiring pop...
$65.00
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Literary Hub • “Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026”“A poetics of magic and experience, of submission and resistance, of saying and seeing who and what we are in stereo.” ―Terrance Hayes Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems,...
$29.00
Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron Leflore
From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary.When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was in a yard at the State Prison of Southern Michigan...
$55.00
The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation
*AN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER* From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities—while confronting a system built to exclude them. During...
$30.00
The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America
For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels.The year, 1851. The place, a Quaker...
$31.00