Non-Fiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "You Owe You is full of insight and guidance for those seeking their inner selves."--MICHAEL B. JORDAN No matter your story or your struggle, Eric Thomas--celebrated motivational guru, educator, and problem-solver to many of...

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...

A conversation between 2 eminent Black thinkers on how to work together to make the world a better place despite deep religious differences Brad Braxton and Anthony Pinn represent two traditions--Christianity and Secular Humanism respectively--that have...

Discover a Better Standard of ExcellenceYou're not good enough. How many of us internalize this belief before we even reach adulthood? How many of us feel unworthy and unable to live up to what seem like impossible-yet-completely-arbitrary standards?...

Intimacies in Borrowed Light: Poems is Darius Stewart's first book-length collection of poems drawn from his three previous chapbooks in addition to new poems not collected in those volumes. The result is a book that is more than the sum of its parts,...

This impressive and enjoyable debut poetry collection by American-Tamil poet Selvi M. Bunce and Ugandan poet Mimi Mutesa is enriched with unique illustrations by Mimi. It is a fiery challenge to preconceptions of race and relationships through poems of...

Strange Borderlands, Ben Berman's first full-length collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poet's immersion in a new culture. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, Berman provides a vivid narrative of...

- Complete guide to the amazingly varied treasures of Libya A practical guide to visiting the many treasures of Libya - desert landscapes, vast classical ruins and vibrant modern cities. Wendy Buthfer lived and worked in Libya for 10 years and knows it...

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as...

In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him--and that would ultimately shape the course of the...

The award-winning "lively and excellent collection" (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has "set himself apart from his peers with his...

The complexities of a racially divided culture are too numerous to count, and with one glance around the globe, it is easy to see why no one is immune to its effects. With so many stories, personal experiences, and misunderstandings, it is all too much...