Non-fiction

The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakth...

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate conc...

Who are you, when you come from two places? Ennatu Domingo was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of seven and transpla...

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture ...

Critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the...

In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar a...

Told from the perspective of some of the finest contemporary Black male writers and thinkers, MANDEM is an ode to th...

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive ...

What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 19...

In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition...

We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. Published i...

Powerful essay collection by the great Audre Lorde. I usually don't mention the cover art but in this case I have to ...

Written in the form of two personal letters, The Fire Next Time is at once the story of Baldwin's early life in Harle...

Essayist and novelist Panashe Chigumadzi embarks on a journey to find out more about Zimbabwe and her family after th...

A memoir/manifesto where George M. Johnson relates his own experience growing up as a gay Black kid and gives advice ...

Reading this book really gave me joy. Hanif Abdurraqib writes about perfomances by Black artists and musicians both p...

Poet and curator Anaïs Duplan researched avantgarde practices of artists of color for six years and bundled the resul...

Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st century is an extensive analysis and critique of Black radical...

Aftershocks is a memoir like no other. Nadia Owusu details her life moving around half the world, death and loss of p...

‘“What can I do?” It is a question millions are asking at this unprecedented time in history. What can I do to fight ...

This issue contests the idea that the lack of sunlight characterizing the Night, means that we “see” less in darkness...

The book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant makes a groundbreaking yet vastly unacknowledged grassroots magazine...

he book Amplifying brings together written manifestations that trace the beginnings of Black feminism in the Netherla...

'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly The Western museum is a battleground - a t...

Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class ine...

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a wom...

Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the...

From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergeneration...

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that ...

Self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. A resolutely materialist spirituality based eq...

Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ wor...

Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes ...

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaime...

Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a re...

When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rig...

Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing ...