Race

An exceptional scholar, lawyer, athlete, stage and screen actor, linguist, singer, civil rights and political activist,…

In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes…

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time,…

Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and…

Haskell Indian Nations University began as the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School. It was one of the first Native…

The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

With her hands raised on a New Jersey turnpike, Assata Shakur (godmother of Tupac) was shot by state troopers, claiming…

This novel is everything. At its most simplistic, it's a love story set in Nigeria, the US, and the UK. It's so much…

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from…

This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…

A wake up call for white Americans to recognize their privilege in society and to address the fact that while America…

Punk rock music has addressed race since the beginning, and racial concerns have always been important in punk…

An essay from father to son on how to live, thrive and survive as an African American man. In a profound work that…

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold Ii of Belgium seized for himself the vast and…

Shon Meckfessel takes an innovative look at challenges faced by twenty-first century social movements in the US. One of…

This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the…

Helen and Scott Nearing were authors of Living the Good Life and many other books, and they lived together for more…

Slavery still exists in the United States of America, we just hide it behind prison walls. From the school-to-prison…

Decoded is billed as rapper Jay-Z's annotated lyrics. In reality, it's a whip-smart, beautifully written memoir that…

This book chronicles the formation of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black…

This is the first and only collection of the most vital, representative writings of the Party. It fiercely refuted the…

Police murders of Black people no longer go unnoticed in the public eye and the violence of racism can no longer be…

Sixteen short stories by poet and all around brilliant person Amiri Baraka. These first came out in 1967 and they are…

Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. The three lives in this creative nonfiction…

There are a lot of serious issues in the world, and let's face it, scrolling through the headlines and memes isn't…