BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

“Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely bo...

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s a...

“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America    In V...

Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern US history, the civil rights move...

Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, S...

Notes From Your BooksellerThis luminous novel is an exploration of what womanhood, sacrifice, and longing looked like in pre-Roe America for youn...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this “deep and be...

Paulette and Fred Baldwin find themselves wading through a new season of life in Hickory Grove, North Carolina. Their only son, McKinley, now works...

Successful attorney Tabitha has it all-except love. With a plethora of experiences and the help of her therapist, Tabitha, must uncover the root ca...

One woman's status is seared into her skin. The other has no freedom. Can they disrupt a colony built on privilege before they face the gallows? Ch...

For three women trying to keep it together, friendship is everything... For romance author Renee Moore, true love only exists in books. Despite a w...

Portrait of EmlanjeniPortrait of Emlanjeni tells an enthralling story of the inhabitants of a small, remote village in Matebeleland South where the...

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother m...

Award-winning historian Tamika Y. Nunley has unearthed the stories of enslaved Black women charged by their owners with poisoning, theft, murder, i...