Race

A graphic novel telling of the Lake Erie tunnel disaster in early-1900s Cleveland. In the story, the project is being…

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

Mariame Kaba explores the legacy of solidarity between Black and Native American communities in the 1960s, focusing…

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

This book wasn't written for most people - give the title another look - but it's a living "choreopoem" whose story…

Black writers from all disciplines tell one of history’s great epics: the journey of African Americans from 1619 to…

In 1967, Freedom House Ambulance Service was founded to serve the predominantly Black Hill District of Pittsburgh,…

In this elegantly written history of the Black Panthers for younger readers, authors Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom,…

A collection of short stories set in a dystopian near-future. Titled after the consumer "holiday,"  the stories explore…

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

Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born in Nigeria in 1900. Funmilayo (the name she went by) was the fisty female…

In St. Louis, Missouri in 1933, 500 Black women who worked for the Funsten Nut Company mounted a successful strike…

In 2016, Anne Elizabeth Moore was offered the opportunity to live in a house in 'Banglatown,' a primarily Bangladeshi…

Black women have never been more visible or publicly celebrated, but for for every new milestone, the reality of…

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his…

Award-winning journalist Kyle Swenson profiles the case of three men wrongfully convicted in the early 1970s to explore…

Tired of being cynical about today's political climate? Learn how to approach activism and contemporary social movements…

No one's worth can be measured by how productive they are in our capitalist society. But in our 'grind culture' we are…

After the horrific events of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, there was an official investigation... but it was far from…

Beginning in 1791 and lasting through 1804, the Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt in the "New World" to turn…

Harold, the People's Mayor is the authorized biography of Chicago's first black mayor, written by the late civil rights…

Harriet Tubman's name has gone down in history for her escape from slavery and many subsequent trips back to help others…

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

When a sixteen-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, witnesses the murder of her friend by a police officer, her surburban…

With the expected grace of Wendell Berry comes The Hidden Wound, an essay about racism and the damage it has done to…

This graphic novel and memoir takes us to Apple Valley, California in the 1980s. A miserable desert town is an unusual…