Staff Picks

A revealing account of the historical origins of Western racism in the Americas, Dr. Jan...

Black hands molded clay, chiseled marble,rendered portraits, and painted vistas.Black hands penned literary testamentsthat have...

2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/Autobiography“A powerful and poignant memoir.”—Cornel West, from...

J.D. has a big problem—it’s the night before the start of third grade and his...

A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying...

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation...

From 1817 to 1858, the United States government engaged in a bitter conflict with the...

Many of the vestiges of the Civil Rights movement, including initiatives such as affirmative action,...

Meet Leland Melvin—football star, NASA astronaut, and professional dream chaser.In this inspiring memoir, adapted from...

Black Privilege challenges the story America tells about race. It refuses victimhood, insisting instead that...

A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic...