African American & Black
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Dandelion: A Memoir in Essays
$17.99 Read moreDandelion: A Memoir in Essays is a profoundly personal exploration of mental health, identity, and survival. Through a collection of essays, poetry, and reflections, the author shares their journey a
- Author: Bainbridge, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1938841417
- Language: English
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Essential Poems by Pat Parker
$19.95 Add to cartRenowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer Pat Parker wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime, Jonestown & Other Madness, Movement in Black, Womanslaughter, Pit Stop, … [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Parker, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1944981810
- Language: English
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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
$19.00 Add to cartConsidered one of “the most innovative studies of American emancipation in the Civil War” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass), Somewhere Toward Freedom is a groundbr… [more below]
- Author: Parten, Bennett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1668034697
- Language: English
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African American History: An Enthralling Overview of African American Heritage, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Underground Railroad
$31.09 Add to cartAfrican American History 3-in-1: An Unforgettable Journey of Resilience, Resistance, and Triumph
From the inhuman horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade to the secret heroism of the Underground Railroad,
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887655994
- Language: English
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My God’s Been Silent
$20.00 Add to cartMy God’s Been Silent is a poetry collection that lives at the intersection of faith and fury, grief and grace. Written in the aftermath of loss and disillusionment, these poems are elegies and incanta
- Author: Phelps, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896920854
- Language: English
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America, a Love Story
$16.95 Read moreNew poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy’s powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 081950226X
- Language: English
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Not Without Laughter
$14.99 Add to cartLangston Hughes’s debut novel, a moving portrait of African American family life in 1930s Kansas, newly reissued for Union Square & Co.’s Herald Classics line.
Originally published in 1930, Not Witho- Series: Herald Classics
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1454964790
- Language: English
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
$29.99 Read moreBest known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?
Randal M. Jelks d
- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889832126
- Language: English
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Turn Where: A Geography of Home
$30.00 Read moreA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study
“In Chet’la Sebree’s sensitive and tender han… [more below]- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 059359584X
- Language: English
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Breathing Out: Ruminations of a Millennial Black Woman
$23.95 Add to cartIn this raw and groundbreaking anti-racism declaration, Whitney Parnell weaves in narratives from her years of activism, running a Black-led organization, experiences with training in allyship, and da
- Author: Parnell, Whitney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798891382114
- Language: English
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Brave Like a Lion!: How a Puppeteer Found Her Voice
$18.99 Read moreIn this empowering picture book by a groundbreaking Sesame Street Puppeteer, a shy girl finds her voice with the help of her favorite puppet.
At home, May loves to play pretend with her puppets, leadi- Author: Piphus, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593857593
- Language: English
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At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
$16.95 Add to cartThe first volume in a major new series offering a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs, that reveals the complex stories that their collections tell us.
This book
- Series: At the Vanguard #1
- Author: Salahu-Din, Tulani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 191727307X
- Language: English
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Paces the Cage
$18.95 Add to cartInterspersed with ambient sound, lighting and stage directions, Henry-Smith’s poems read as an improvised performance fusing the literal and metaphorical
S*an D. Henry-Smith’s second full-length book o
- Author: Henry-Smith, Sean D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991298865
- Language: English
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The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
$12.99 Add to cartYolanda’s year is on fire – but it’s not the good kind.
Just as things are clicking at school and with her friends, a bad feeling rolls into the Bronx. A new white student sets Yolanda on edge, and h- Author: Avila, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1646144481
- Language: English
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Listen to the Girls
$17.99 Read moreWhen Calla finds out her favorite teacher has been accused of inappropriate conduct, she decides to take action in this powerful story about growing up and speaking up, about listening to others and l… [more below]
- Author: Giles, Chrystal D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593651715
- Language: English
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House of the Rising Sun
$26.95 Read moreWHEN THE HOWELL FAMILY MOVES INTO A HOUSE on Heckler Lane, it causes quite a stir around the small town of Sunny Cove, Pennsylvania. Elise Howell, a well-known cardio surgeon, has returned home after
- Author: K’Wan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142893
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$19.00 Read moreHis cello made him famous. His father made him a target.
Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and tale- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593687639
- Language: English
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Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist
$18.95 Add to cartGinette Depreist’s life with James DePreist was a wonderful one. One filled with excitement, rewards and love with a partner she would have never dreamed of. His life, however, was so much more. His j
- Author: Depreist, Ginette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886793161
- Language: English
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Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans
$18.95 Add to cartDiscover the complete Black history of New York–from 1609 to the present–by the award-winning author of Breaking the Chains and Black Indians. For readers 12 and up.
Includes a new intro and last ch- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644214393
- Language: English
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The Big Once-A-Year Broussard-Bouchard Family Reunion
$18.99 Read moreZydeco–pure and beautiful and stomping good–takes the stage in a joyous celebration of extended family, community, and Louisiana culture.
Every year on the last Saturday in July, Broussard-Bouchard- Author: English, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1536220388
- Language: English
