Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
This Thug's Life
The first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur – written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper’s big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu...
$30.00
Transcendent: A Memoir
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFour-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing.Laverne Cox...
$30.00
Thinking from Black: A Lexicon
An expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure.Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributors―the Practicing Refusal Collective―are visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers,...
$20.00
A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb and Your Survival Guide to Healing
Black women are facing a systemic gynecological health crisis. This book gives them the tools needed to unlearn the medical normalization of their suffering and offers a path forward to healing—by a foremost physician, surgeon, researcher, and gynecological cancer expert.When...
$29.00
Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters: Poems
A witty and searching collaborative poetic work composed during the pandemic.Let’s go back far as we dareto go back to that land bridgemade of untrusting earth & ice,to a boorish faith in our rhythmof footsteps, the fleeting mantraof wordless dreams...
$22.00
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamicsA white man hosts a wedding party for his...
$32.00
Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir
A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United States, Haiti, and...
$55.00
Tower Hill: A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion
The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the...
$35.00
Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants
This standout creative nonfiction debut explores the lives and histories of plants considered nonnative or invasive as metaphors for the Black experience in America. In Tending the Vines, Ashia S. Ajani illuminates how eight unique plants tell the story of the...
$30.00
Torn from the Root: A Memoir of a Black Transracial Adoptee
As a Black child adopted out of the New York foster care system as a toddler and raised by white evangelical parents, Rhonda Roorda had to learn how to walk in two different worlds. She often questioned “whether my skin...
$30.00
A Taste of Madagascar: Culinary Riches of the Red Island
2026 International Book Award Winner for Travel: Guides & Essays, 2026IPPY Awards Silver Medal in Cookbooks/Specialty, 2026Discover Madagascar’s hidden food treasures from vanilla to caviar to unique spices—a food explorer’s guide across the Red Island.What’s hiding in Madagascar’s lush forests,...
$38.00
The Taste of Country Cooking: 50th Anniversary Edition: A Cookbook
The most beloved Southern cookbook of all time: a glorious celebration of seasonal eating that has shaped generations of home cooks, from “the first lady of Southern cooking” (NPR). Beautifully repackaged and redesigned, with a new foreword by Toni Tipton-Martin.“A...
$40.00
Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White House staffer, about his rural Maryland family’s untold history, the merger of three churches—one Black, two white—and how a radical embrace of community became their salvation, and his.“A moving and...
$30.00
Tamu: A Journey Through Africa's Plant-Based Cuisine
This richly personal cookbook celebrates African plant-based cuisine from across Africa through its regional traditions, powerful storytelling, and vibrant, nourishing recipes.In her debut cookbook, African plant-based food educator and chef Jane Nshuti invites readers on a journey across the continent,...
$35.00
Take My Word for It: A Memoir
The legendary actor behind Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow shares never-before-told stories from a life that has shaped generations—told at last on his own terms.This is my attempt to pull back the curtain. Not just on the roles I’ve played,...
$32.00
To All the Women I've Ever Loved
To All the Women I’ve Ever Loved is a heartfelt love letter to the divine feminine and all the women who carry its flame, from bestselling poet Billy Chapata.Through poetry and prose, Billy Chapata—bestselling author of Velvet Dragonflies and Flowers on the Moon—lays flowers...
$20.00
Sweet Home Feliciana: Family, Slavery, and the Hauntings of History
In this tapestry of intersecting stories, including those of her own family, Rashauna Johnson charts the global transformation of a rural region in Louisiana from European colonialism to Jim Crow. From her ancestor Virgil to her cousin Veronica and her...
$32.00
Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America's Soul
The untold story of the Black patriots—from soldiers in combat to peace protesters—who ended the Vietnam War and defended the soul of American democracy, from a pre-eminent civil rights historian and the award-winning author of Half AmericanAs the civil rights movement...
$32.00
The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable
$32.00
The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare and Feminism Made Marriage Optional and Children Vulnerable
A bold Christian voice challenges progressives to confront the one racial disparity they have ignored for decades: the breakdown of the black family.Today, 70 percent of black children are born to unmarried parents and close to half grow up without...
$32.00
The Voice in My Head Is God
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In his most personal work yet, Grammy Award–winning rapper 2 Chainz shares the spiritual journey behind his success, offering a raw, reflective, and deeply motivational meditation on the inner voice that’s guided him his whole life: God.Before he...
$28.00
Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson
From the New York Times’s former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriersThe night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial,...
$35.00
Voodoo for Dummies
An approachable and accurate guide to Voodoo. Ready to connect with the unseen world, the angels, and the spirits of those who have passed? Voodoo For Dummies is a fascinating and easy-to-follow guide to Voodoo (also known as Vodou), a celebrated...
$25.00
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...
$35.00
The Way Disabled People Love Each Other
The latest poetry collection by the award-winning author of Tonguebreaker, Care Work, and The Future Is Disabled Lambda Award–winning poet, memoirist, and disability justice movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha returns with their long-awaited fifth collection of poems, written over five years of pandemic lockdown,...
$19.00
The Way Love Goes: A Guide to Building a "Beaurtiful" and Everlasting Relationship
Hip-hop legend “Da Brat” DuPart and her wife Judy DuPart, stars of WEtv’s highly rated reality series Brat Loves Judy, share their journey to the altar and parenthood in this candid relationship guide and marriage memoir. Hip-hop legend Da Brat and beauty...
$28.00
We Run 313: The Pulse of Detroit's Run Club
"We Run 313 - like the club it represents - is 'joyful, rhythmic, loud, Black, and proud,' a beautiful rendering of the power of possibility and solidarity in the running world and far beyond." - Kerry McHugh, Shelf Awareness We Run 313...
$44.00
We (the People of the United States)
“An essential addition to the American poetic canon.” —BooklistFrom an award-winning poet praised for his “rhapsodic, rigorous” work (The New Yorker) comes an immersive meditation on kindship, collectivity, and environmental thoughtWe (The People of The United States) is a book-length poem...
$20.00
We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music
A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock ‘n’ roll and alternative music, repopulating it with the extraordinary Black artists and influential figures who steered its course, from an author, journalist, and front woman of the British post punk band...
$30.00
We've Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
America has always been sustained by rebellion and activism. It is up to us to continue the fight. America's founding was a contradictory one. When the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years ago, it painted a beautiful vision of freedom and...
$30.00
What (Tf) Do I Do Now?: Reclaiming Myself, One Piece at a Time
“Reesa Teesa’s online story captivated the world, and this book will do the same.”—Robin Roberts, New York Times bestselling author and co-anchor of Good Morning AmericaThe creator of the viral TikTok series “Who TF Did I Marry?” shares an even more unfiltered account...
$32.00