Hardships, injustice, and abuse can leave us crippled, or they can leave us more determined than ever to thrive.Ira Combs, Jr. grew up in the poverty-stricken city of Westland, Michigan. Between racial injustice, a pervasive drug culture, and a complex...

Tyriek White did not come to play. He is doing something for New York narratives I've never seen, and really never imagined. This novel is so New York--so, so New York--yet so deeply southern on lower frequencies. It's astonishing. --Kiese Laymon, author...

National bestselling author Kiki Swinson's novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters--and an unsparing portrayal of Southern struggling, lying, betraying . . . and dying. Now everything is on the line as a female firefighter...

The first book to fully chronicle the struggles and triumphs of African American athletes in the Modern Olympic summer games. In the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 through the present, African American athletes have sought to honor themselves, their...

It's time for SAC Gaines, also known as Hot Shot, to turn up the heat on the Inglewood 13s and get the vengeance he seeks for his family. Will he be able to maintain his professionalism without letting his emotions override the task at hand? Turned Up is...

Follow Phantom, Inaya, Lox, and Sahnai as they seek to discover what their hearts really want. After a rocky start, Phantom and Inaya had fallen for each other. But now, Phantom is in Miami, and Inaya decides to make her own choices and live her own...

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected...

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement. In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage,...

From the author of Yellow Wife comes a heartwarming, moving story about two Black women trying to overcome their circumstances in 1950s America--and the stumbling blocks each faces that could upend everything they've worked so hard for.When Eleanor, a...

African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals. Woody...

An absolute masterpiece. -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the first ever poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center comes a bold coming-of-age story told in verse about a young woman who loses a best friend, but finds...

A wife has had enough of her husband's cheating ways, but he isn't willing to let her go without a fight. Paula Smith Harris has learned that the man she thought was her true love isn't exactly who he vowed to be. After enduring countless affairs, among...