Cultural Literature

From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city...

Expressive and rich paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera--made during a time of intense solitude and collective struggle across the globe "The rising star's ethereal work is filled with transcendent imagery that allows the viewer to peek...

Ohio was at the heart of it all.During a dark time in United States history, thousands of freedom seekers traveled the Underground Railroad through Ohio. The Buckeye State hosted about half of all fugitive slave traffic of the antebellum era. A mix of...

Narrated by Audie, Emmy, and NAACP(R) Image Award-winning actor, Joe Morton, and joined by Christian Gregory and Afrika K. Kenjyatta. A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the...

A soul-baring, brutally candid, and highly colorful memoir of the two years--1977 and 1978--when Reggie Jackson went from being an outcast to a Yankee legend. In the spring of 1977 Reggie Jackson should have been on top of the world. The best player on...

A graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting--and beating--calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their communities, and winning. We Live Here! is a graphic novel...

In 1924, the Virginia State Legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act.The act banned interracial marriage down to a single drop of African blood. Just three months later, Curtis W. Harris was born in Dendron, Virginia. Harris was the sixth child of...

Told through the powerful stories of Black lives that were ravaged by racism, this manifesto holds 10 demands to rectify racial injustice   Told through his perspective as an activist, acclaimed commentator Solomon Jones tells the stories of real...

The story of Raleigh's African American communities begins before the Civil War.Towns like Oberlin Village were built by free people of color in the antebellum era. During Reconstruction, the creation of thirteen freedmen's villages defined the racial...

A Hidden History of Unequal AccessDuring the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, boosting literacy and knowledge, and serving as a place...

After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on...

An Exploration of Imhotep--Architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, High Priest of Ra, and Royal Astronomer--as Well as His Influence as the True Father of African Civilization. In this groundbreaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist...

First published in 2007, the groundbreaking book Finding Freedom provided the first narrative account of the life of Joshua Glover, the freedom seeker who was famously broken out of jail by thousands of Wisconsin abolitionists in 1854. This paperback...

From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot.On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was...

Israel's Transformative Black Artists is a book about 7 Ethiopian Jewish artists and their work. These artists practice and participate in Judaism, live in Israel (or at some point did), and create beautiful paintings, drawings, photographs, and graphic...