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Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. In the stories gathered...
$22.95
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all time in 2017.Passmore...
$20.00
Youth
"Bold, genre-defying and heartfelt, Youth hits a reader like the meteor in its own pages; an angry, wondrous and transformative book" -- Scott Snyder (Battman, Justice League)Named one of "10 Comic Books to Celebrate Pride," by The New York Times, June 2020Youth is...
$19.99
Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story
"It's irresistible to try and imagine what Hurston would make of this book, and inevitable to conclude that she'd approve."―NPR Best Books of 2017A bold retelling of the life of the Their Eyes Were Watching God authorPeter Bagge has defied the expectations...
$21.95
Heart of Darkness
Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of Joseph Conrad's classic novella. Heart of Darkness has unsettled generations of readers with its haunting portrait of colonialism in Africa. Acclaimed illustrator Peter Kuper delivers a visually immersive and profound interpretation of...
$21.95
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain“Whether heralding unsung entertainers or reexamining legends, Hanif Abdurraqib weaves together gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance. I...
$27.00
African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul care rituals, tools, and exercises.Spiritual teacher, intuitive coach, and award-winning author, Abiola Abrams invites you to activate African goddess magic to transmute your fears and limiting beliefs, so that you can create...
$24.99
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
“Not since Angela Davis’s 2003 book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, has a scholar so persuasively challenged our conventional understanding of the criminal legal system.” ―Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Washington Post From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots”...
$29.95
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by...
$14.95
Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and Future
A fascinating history celebrating Black players in Major League Baseball from the 1800s through today, with special insight into what the future may hold. In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier: The Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present, and...
$32.00
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir
An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended...
$24.95
Black Girl, Call Home
A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—VogueFrom spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and...
$15.00
Black Nerd Problems: Essays
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays on everything from Mario Kart and The Wire to issues of representation and police brutality across media.When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded Black...
$27.00
Born in a Second Language
Born in a Second Language investigates how Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence,...
$16.00
Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother
Writing to his brother, G’Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood—all through wry social commentary and music/pop culture critiqueHow does one approach Blackness, masculinity, otherness, and the perils of young adulthood? For...
$24.95
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere...
$26.99
Carrie Mae Weems
Essays and interviews explore the work of Carrie Mae Weems and its place in the history of photography, African American art, and contemporary art. In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist...
$45.00
Chicken Soup for the Soul: I'm Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope
Now more than ever, the strong, independent, courageous voices of Black women are being heard loud and clear. They share their truth about life, love, family, faith and hope in these 101 personal stories and 12 powerful poems. The world is listening. Black...
$14.95
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power
"Dear Black Girl is the empowering, affirming love letter our girls need in order to thrive in a world that does not always protect, nurture, or celebrate us. This collection of Black women's voices... is a must-read, not only for Black...
$16.95
Far Away from Close to Home: Essays
New & Noteworthy: The New York Times “Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave.” ―Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of “home” means...
$17.00
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
"The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don’t know. Dance along this read into the unknown and find out that this book may be the best ever answer to...
$28.00
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
$26.00
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
As a 6'2" dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt knows what it feels like to be stereotyped as threatening, which can have dangerous consequences. But he also knows that proximity to people who are different from ourselves can be a cure...
$26.00
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
A much-needed perspective. ― Library Journal Starred ReviewThe wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement. Born in Missouri in 1924, Vivian...
$25.95
Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
A beautifully designed panorama of Kara Walker’s works on paper―all reproduced for the first time This gorgeous 600-page volume, with a printed cloth-over-paper binding, provides an exciting opportunity to delve into the creative process of Kara Walker, one of the...
$65.00
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times (Revised)
$17.99
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times (Revised)
Read the detailed and absorbing chronicle of Martin Luther King's leadership during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past—featuring a foreword by Dr. Bernice King. Hailed as America’s greatest civil rights advocate, Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired the people of...
$17.99
Miseducated: A Memoir
An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his...
$28.00
Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance
Where racism and sexism meet―an understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had...
$28.00
My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
he inspiring story of activist and poet Ian Manuel, who at the age of fourteen was sentenced to life in prison. He survived eighteen years in solitary confinement—through his own determination and dedication to art—until he was freed as part...
$25.95
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable —but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through...
$24.99
Notes on Grief
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father."Essential." —BooklistNotes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of...
$16.00