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  • Doppelgangbanger

    by Cortney Lamar Charleston

    In his highly anticipated second poetry collection, Doppelgangbanger, Cortney Lamar Charleston examines the performance of Black masculinity in the U.S., and its relationship to family, love and community.

  • We Still Here

    by Marc Lamont Hill

    In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.

  • Black Power Afterlives

    Edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis

    A powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles.

  • The Brother You Choose

    by Susie Day

    Former Black Panthers Paul Coates and Eddie Conway discuss lives, politics, and their friendship that helped Eddie survive decades in prison.

  • Too Much Midnight

    by Krista Franklin

    Krista Franklin’s work emerges at the intersection of poetics, popular culture, and the dynamic histories of the African Diaspora. Krista lives in Chicago, IL.

  • Can I Kick It?

    by Idris Goodwin

    Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.

  • Missing Daddy

    by Mariame Kaba

    A father and daughter's love cannot be broken even when prison bars separate them.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • 1919

    by Eve L. Ewing

    Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

  • Repair

    by Katherine Franke

    A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.

  • Build Yourself a Boat

    by Camonghne Felix

    Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

  • War and an Irish Town

    by Eamonn McCann

    War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.

  • Black Queer Hoe

    by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
    A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

    Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.
    A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

  • C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc and Scott McLemee
    CLR James and Revolutionary Marxism collects some of the most important, but difficult to obtain, articles from the legendary Trinidadian-Marxist.

  • Class Struggle and the Color Line

    by Paul Heideman
    A thoughtful collection of original documents highlighting the deep, early roots of Black radicalism in the US from 1900-1930.

  • Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981

    by Philip S. Foner
    A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.

  • How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

  • Black Liberation and the American Dream

    Edited by Paul Le Blanc
    Analysing intersections of race, class, and gender alongside primary texts, this unique volume explores racism and antiracism in the US.

  • A Beautiful Ghetto

    by Devin Allen
    Allen asks us to see beyond the the violence and poverty that all too often defines the "ghetto."

  • The Whiskey of our Discontent

    Edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff
    Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.