Fiction - Black Reads

For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, h...

A Heart-rending Story of Two Mothers-one White, One Black-struggling for Truth and Justice in the Civil Rights-era SouthIn 1958, when almost no w...

In Dangerously in Love, a stripper, a desperate housewife, and a sexually addicted husband take fatal attraction to a new level—and reveal the ex...

"The leopard's stealthy gait is not a result of cowardice; it is simply stalking a prey." (Do not mistake people's gentle nature for spinelessnes...

"This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much ...

A classic trickster folktale told with humor and charm, this is a perfect read along book both parents and children will love. When Anansi the Sp...

In 1994, the akazu, Rwandan's political elite, planned the genocidal mass slaughter of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi and Hutu who lived in the count...

An incisive new collection of poetry on political and contemporary themesI’m made of murderers I’m madeOf nobodies and immigrants and the poorand...

Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbingride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow-microcosm of all that is contra...

Reparations Now! asks for what’s owed. In formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations...

When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women of the island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados) calls the police to confess to a crime, th...

Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook!The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated recording artist and slam poet Tarriona "Tank" ...

Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don’t Tell Me Not to A...

“Glowing with warmth, vulnerability, and a heavy heart, Arsenia’s intimate reflections depict the past and present wrestling within the individua...

From the beloved author of Whiskey, Words, and a Shovel comes the third and final volume in the "Planting Gardens in Graves" series.r.h. Sin comp...

Recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lit...