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Ink: The Indelible J. Mayo Williams (coming soon - July 23, 2024)
The product of a hardscrabble childhood, J. Mayo “Ink” Williams parlayed an Ivy League education into unlikely twin careers as a foundational producer of Black music and pioneering Black player in the early NFL. Clifford R. Murphy tells the story...
$24.95
Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves
From J. Drew Lanham, MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient and author of Sparrow Envy: A Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, comes a sensuous new collection in his signature mix of poetry and prose. In gorgeous and timely pieces, Joy Is the...
$17.00
Kowbird: Amazing Chicken Recipes from Chef Matt Horn's Restaurant and Home Kitchen
If you are like most people, you eat a lot of chicken. But chances are you haven’t had chicken like Matt Horn’s chicken. Now you can! Learn how to make the best chicken on the planet, from a true master...
$25.00
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief. Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often...
$32.50
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”
Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice―and what it takes to find shelter.Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children...
$29.98
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling author Fawn Weaver unveils the hidden narrative behind one of America’s most iconic whiskey brands. This book is a vibrant exploration set in the present day, delving into the life...
$28.00
Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series, 12) (coming soon - August 20, 2024)
New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging. Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown’s Loving Corrections is a collection of...
$18.00
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
“Groundbreaking...Through Tiya Miles’ meticulous research and an unwavering focus on Tubman’s humanity, Night Flyer has transformed a fantastical figure from a bygone time into an accessible, modern-day inspiration.” - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Though broad strokes of Tubman’s story are widely known, Miles probes deeper,...
$30.00
Red, White & Verse: Our Myths, Legends & Stories
America—the beautiful, brave, and bold. By depicting our nation’s long legacy of inspiring figures, landmarks, and events, this poetry collection enlivens modern perceptions of the stories all Americans are raised on. Even more notably, it rejuvenates our sense of connection...
$24.98
Remember, You Are a Wiley (Coming soon-September 17, 2024)
A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and her loved...
$32.00
The Road Is Good: How a Mother's Strength Became a Daughter's Purpose (Coming soon- September 24, 2024)
A powerful, timely memoir of Black immigrant identity, the story of an unforgettable matriarch, and a unique coming-of-age story by Nigerian American actress Uzo Aduba.The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of...
$30.00
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal...
$30.00
Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity (coming soon-August 13, 2024)
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor—and particularly sass—functions as a tool for...
$221.00
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems (Coming Soon– August 6, 2024)
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing that’s based on human...
$26.00
A Seat at the Table: The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her?Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in...
$30.00
Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist (Coming soon-July 16, 2024)
The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature’s most misunderstood animal—the shark."Jasmin Graham has that winning combination of talent and grit needed to...
$28.00
Silver: Poems
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title.This beautiful, slender collection―small and weighted like a coin―is Rowan Ricardo Phillips at his very best. These luminous, unsparing, dreamlike poems are as lyrical as...
$26.00
Skip Tracer (Coming soon-July 23, 2024)
An innovative memoir―composed of poems, prose, and photographs―that engages with the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, cultural identity, music, and masculinity, by a poetry legend. Blending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system”...
$20.00
Smokin' and Grillin' with Aaron Brown: More Than 100 Spectacular Recipes for Cooking Outdoors
$28.00
Smokin' and Grillin' with Aaron Brown: More Than 100 Spectacular Recipes for Cooking Outdoors
Let barbecue superstar Aaron “AB” Brown guide you out of the grilling rut and into a big, colorful, and fantastically flavored world of new possibilities.Is there any kind of cooking that gets more stuck in a repetitive routine than grilling?...
$28.00
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability...
$17.98
Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story
An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel...
$30.00
Strategically Navigating Anti-Black Racism in Professional Spaces: A Practical Guide for Black People Responding to Racism in the Workplace
An empowering guide to help you navigate racism in the workplace, find solutions that work for you, and stay focused on your professional goals and well-being. Have you ever been in a meeting or had a conversation where a coworker or...
$24.95
Tales from the Symphony: Perspectives from African American Musicians
This book contains conversations with nineteen African American classical musicians currently performing—or who have previously performed—in America’s major symphony orchestras. Each chapter focuses on the story of one musician and sheds light on the realities of African American musicians playing...
$221.00
Thunder on the Stage: The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright’s long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright’s family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers...
$55.00
Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing
Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of providing “spaces for the...
$55.00
Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
A stunning lyrical commentary on the constructions of race, gender, and class in the fraught nexus of a Black woman’s personal experience and cultural histor The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems...
$18.95
Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On a Deadly American Epidemic
The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issuesRob Gore first encountered violence when he was beaten...
$27.95
Undefeated: Changing the Rules and Winning on My Own Terms
Shaunie Henderson—wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wives—opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today’s world, and reveals how to define your career and personal life by...
$28.98
Under Jackie's Shadow: Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
Under Jackie’s Shadow is a portal to the hidden world of Minor League baseball in the era just after Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.What was it like to be Black and playing in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in...
$34.95
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a...
$20.00