Books

Charlise Rookwood, the vegan influencer and host of The Black Vegan Cooking Show, brings a vegan approach to African and Caribbean-style cooking W...

"Cynthia Manick's latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she tra...

Alexander loves Sundays, especially Sunday dinners, so when his mom asks him to make something special, all by himself, he sets out to make a dish ...

100 delicious recipes to make meals for yourself (and sometimes a few friends too) with style, sophistication, and the occasional indulgence

For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street--a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone...

A Best Book of the Year 2023: TIME NPR's Best Books New York Public Library Electric Lit The Root NBC Today Mother JonesThe New York Times b...

Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people who are searching for the healing pro...

Tasked with bringing a potluck lunch to school, Kofi learns the significance of food in his Ghanaian heritage as his grandfather unravels tales of ...

"One of her best collections to date." --EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices...

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post - Chicago Tribune - NPR - Vogue - Elle - Real Simple - InStyle - Good Housekeeping - Parade - Slate - ...

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - Instant New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Gl...

Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents--from being awkward newlyweds in the sti...

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging--for fans of Jasmine Mans ...

"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own ...

"The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States"--

"To understand the contemporary racial wealth gap, we must first unpack the historic attacks on Indigenous and Black land ownership. From the momen...

"One morning after breakfast, Babys big brother is getting ready to take the basket of bananas all the way to Baba's bungalow in the next village. ...

"Acclaimed food writer and chef Melissa Thompson takes us on a journey to this Caribbean jewel through 80 recipes and more than 500 years of histor...

The first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which they...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Orig...

The story of three "colored girls," three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the oldest, a poet and a weaver like ...

"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride ...

An extraordinary synthesis of Afrocentric spirituality and alternative health is offered by a nationally renowned spiritual teacher and holistic he...