J.C. can't wait to act in the community center's play with his best friends, Vicky and Amir. But when he gets onstage, stage fright strikes. Will the support of J.C.'s family and friends be enough to help him remember his lines?

J.C. can't wait to act in the community center's play with his best friends, Vicky and Amir. But when he gets onstage, stage fright strikes. Will the support of J.C.'s family and friends be enough to help him remember his lines?

J.C. can't wait to go play at the park. But when Mom spots a new neighbor in need of help, she says their outing will have to wait. Can J.C. find a way to have fun and be a good neighbor?

J.C. can't wait to go play at the park. But when Mom spots a new neighbor in need of help, she says their outing will have to wait. Can J.C. find a way to have fun and be a good neighbor?

From music to art to poetry, creativity filled the air in the Fillmore District. The creativity and inclusion brought communities together--with no exceptions. Everyone was welcome, and everyone was accepted. In this beautiful story about the historical...

On the themes found in the work of Lorraine O'Grady: Black female subjectivity, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, music, and translation. Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions...

J.C. is craving cupcakes and so is Pop-Pop! But when baby Maya won't go down for her nap, J.C. and Pop-Pop have to get creative. Can they handle baking and babysitting at the same time?

J.C. is craving cupcakes and so is Pop-Pop! But when baby Maya won't go down for her nap, J.C. and Pop-Pop have to get creative. Can they handle baking and babysitting at the same time?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a poem is worth a thousand sentiments. An Old Fart and a Thousand Sentiments takes you on adventure into the fertile imagination of an Old Fart with a jailbroken poetic license. Brace yourself for designed lyrical...

"I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred...

A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren't just high, they're deadly, in this searing thriller that's Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor. You...

From the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead, a fascinating collection of graphic reviews and illustrated prose addressing the last century of American poetry Canonized, overlooked, and forgotten African American poets star in Terrance...

A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead The three sections of Terrance Hayes' seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of...

The Best Latin & Soul Food Made Entirely Vegan Growing up in a Puerto Rican and Black household, Lyana Blount knew from a young age that food was a love language, and it was one she intended to master. After going vegan, she set out to capture the...

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Ajayi Jones uses her honesty and humor to inspire teens to be their bravest, boldest, truest selves, in order to...

From the award-winning author of the instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller When No One Is Watching, love war, and racial justice collide in Alyssa Cole's third buzzworthy, sensual, and revelatory Civil War novel. The Civil War has turned...