Nonfiction - Black Reads

Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King J...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image Award A Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction A Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American ...

In The Letter in Black Radical Thought, Tendayi Sithole analyzes the letters of Sylvia Wynter, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Aìme Césaire, and F...

African Philosophical Adventures calls for a recognition and affirmation of African philosophy as an adventure. This understanding fosters and cult...

A rousing abolitionist speech with themes that still resonate today, from equality under the Constitution and God to a vision of America that defen...

Ismail Badjie's collection of essays and short stories offers a deeply personal exploration of his life experience as a man straddling two worlds (...

Ismail Badjie's collection of essays and short stories offers a deeply personal exploration of his life experience as a man straddling two worlds (...

More than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline...

How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, rac...

"Beautiful, brilliant, bold... Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook." —Christopher John Stephens, PopMatters With luminous insight a...

In SINTOWN SAINTS author Jacques Bordeaux recounts stories of his family's journey from the South Side of Chicago to the suburbs of the Golden Stat...

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection, Athena Dixon invites...

Who are you, when you come from two places? Ennatu Domingo was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of seven and transplanted to Barcelona where she ...

Rae Paris began writing The Forgetting Tree: A Rememory in 2010, while traveling the United States, visiting sites of racial trauma, horror, and de...

"Probing, entertaining and agitating."--Essence By the acclaimed and controversial author of Why Black People Tend to Shout, this is an unblinking ...

A New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of-age journey as a Black boy, from the societal ro...

Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the a...

In The Assassination of the Black Male Image, noted political analyst and media critic Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson offers a searing, controversial in...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker's collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. "Thoughtful, i...