Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in Poetry
When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old—reciting “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showed her there was a...
$17.00
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a powerful call to arms on behalf...
$30.00
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...
$28.00
When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity
A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imagination Current advocates of reparations for slavery and land back often fail to scrutinize racial capitalism and...
$20.00
White Lies: Dismantling Ten Cultural Myths about Race
A timely analysis of the myths that underpin white supremacy--and how to counteract themFor centuries, white men in the West have cultivated and perpetuated a set of false narratives about Black people in order to subjugate and maintain power over...
$44.00
White Power: Policing American Slavery
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued after Emancipation, through Reconstruction, to today. Moving across time, space, and place, White Power uncovers how slaveholders created their own white...
$30.00
Who's Watching Shorty?: Reclaiming Myself from the Shame of R. Kelly's Abuse
Who’s Watching Shorty? is a fearless memoir about the 14-year-old-girl in the child pornography video that ultimately led to R.Kelly’s trial, and one of the most high-profile cases of a generation.Reshona Landfair—known as “Jane Doe” when she testified at R. Kelly’s trial—was the...
$30.00
Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive
A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning authorIn his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics, and cultural criticism to trace the ways structural anti-Black violence has...
$18.00
The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films with a Foreword by John Akomfrah
My Brother Ashley Clark Has Broke It Down To What Black Film Was, Is Present Day, And What The Future Might Be. BLAK IZ BLAK. YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF. Enjoy This BLAK CINEMATIC SCIENCE. - Spike LeeThis book belongs on the shelf...
$45.00
World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project
A timely reexamination of the pioneering artist, activist, and scientist, George Washington Carver.World Without End examines the ongoing impact of the groundbreaking African American scientist and artist George Washington Carver. The book reframes Carver’s contributions to science, art, and activism alongside...
$55.00
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...
$29.00
Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History
The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to read—books...
$55.00
The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026A People Best Book of June | A USA Today Most Anticipated Summer Read"What [Barragán has] produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny, devastating, wildly intimate, and righteous without veering into moralism." ―Kate Knibbs, Wired (Book Club Pick)"I...
$29.00
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...
$45.00
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...
$34.00
Your Pain Is My Joy
Suge Knight was handed nothing in life. Anything he ever had, he fought for, knowing that he had to take what he deserved. Now in this unflinching memoir from behind bars, Suge takes readers on a thrilling ride through the...
$30.00
The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential to American Democracy (and What We Can Learn from Them)
A top Democratic Party strategist and media contributor offers a bold and urgent reminder that young Black women hold the key to saving our democracy and building a truly multi-racial future that benefits all Americans. Agitator. Troublemaker. Motivator. Initiator. Instigator....
$30.00
Injustice Town: A Corrupt City, a Wrongly Convicted Man, and a Struggle for Freedom
A New Yorker Best Book of 2026Winner of the Crime Con CLUE Award for Book of the Year"Comprehensive and sobering. Tulsky details McIntyre’s naïve certainty that the truth would come out during his trial, his alternation between hope and despair as his...
$30.00
The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economy The Inattention Economy challenges the widespread myth that the internet was born from the labor of a handful of white male entrepreneurs, recovering the...
$25.00
In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
“An important and revelatory work that brings economic history to life with narrative and nuance.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred)From an acclaimed historian, a new history of American slavery and American capitalism, told through the setting where both developed. Over the last few...
$36.00
In the House: Celebrating America's Leading Black Interior Designers
A vibrant and inspiring celebration of America’s leading Black interior designers In the House is a groundbreaking showcase of the talent, vision, determination, and impact of today’s leading Black interior designers. With gorgeous photography, compelling profiles, and vivid narratives spotlighting signature...
$60.00
In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6
A profound meditation on hip hop’s transformative power, In the Hour of Chaos takes us deep into the mind of the genre’s most unabashed revolutionary.This book is not an autobiography. It’s not a manifesto. It’s a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and...
$44.00
In the Blood: Poems
A new edition of the first book of poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips, with a new afterword.I am no mystic. I knownothing rises that doesn’tknow how to already.In my ears, only the clubbedfoot of routine, no voices,...
$18.00
In Hush to Harbor: Black Sanctuary from Slavery to Trump's America
Black communities in America have a long history of constructing sanctuaries amid oppression, from the secret hush harbors of slavery to the digital refuges created in response to the resurgence of white supremacist violence in the Trump era. These havens...
$29.00
The Immortal Jim Crow
The Immortal Jim Crow tears the mask off what it's like to grow up as an African American in Florida. Author Richard A. Ryles, Esq. makes the case that despite legislative Civil Rights accomplishments, the Jim Crow culture of racial...
$20.00
Imma See for Myself: A Stubborn Girl's Guide to Trusting God (the First Time Around)
Popular content creator and gospel musician Ariel Fitz-Patrick (who you may recognize with a blanket over her head playing her own sassy Guardian Angel) is “refreshingly vulnerable” (Publishers Weekly) as she shares candid stories of trusting God through life’s hardest...
$29.00
I'll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
On its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America’s leading historians of Black education and the author of American Grammar. In I’ll Make Me a World, acclaimed Harvard...
$25.00
Ice Cream Queen: Flavors from Black America's Past, Present, & Future
An ode to Black joy and creativity with 100 wildly inventive ice cream, sorbet, and nondairy recipes. Back in the 1840s, a free Black woman ran a successful ice cream saloon in Nashville. Her name was Sarah Estell, and she...
$30.00
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington."Chatelain lets us see the complexities of these women’s lives, feel their...
$35.00
How Black Music Took Over the World
One of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmic structures and the long history of the African diaspora made it the world’s most popular form. “A revelatory new book.”—New York TimesWhy do Bob Marley,...
$30.00