BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala's family's experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining in...

Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life's different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a perso...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented ...

This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters ...

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ...

The first book of poems from an acclaimed young author, whose meteoric rise has already landed them on the cover of Time Magazine. In their bold ...

"The greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world."—Time "If there is a more urgent and indispensable playwright in world theater tha...

An epic, lyrical journey through the pulsating heart and underground soul of inner-city London. Misty premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 201...

Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences w...

From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism.Facing You is a...

Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet a...

A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow. Product DetailsISBN-13: 97809304527...

“Pipeline confirms Dominique Morisseau’s reputation as a playwright of piercing eloquence.” —Ben Brantley, New York Times With profound compassi...