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This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man’s search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiatrist and author demonstrates the long chain of development—through the exorcists, magnetists...

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From the critically-acclaimed author of Shoutin’ in the Fire, a journey through American heartbreak and healing, in the spirit of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and books by Rebecca Solnit. Heartbreak is, perhaps, one of the most universal human experiences. Whether...

A provocative historical, cultural, and personal reckoning with Virginia, the state at the heart of America’s foundation and its greatest contradictions—from an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Everyone is from somewhere, but some people are lucky enough to be from somewhere...

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Explore the Stories Behind the Legends In the mid-1970s, Misty Knight burst onto the pages of Marvel Comics. Before Storm, Shuri, or Riri, Misty opened the doors of comics as Marvel’s first Black woman super hero. A detective and martial artist with a bionic arm that gives her heroic strength...

Birth of a Mother is a searing, deeply personal reckoning with the Black maternal health crisis from the author of Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen. Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler weaves together a clinical psychologist's expertise with her own traumatic birthing story to reveal how racism...

From MacArthur Genius, award-winning expert on justice transformation, James Bell, Sorrow’s Kitchen presents a groundbreaking and unapologetically hopeful vision of what is possible if we center our communities and justice systems around care and wellbeing rather than punishment and control...

The incredible story of what happened when two outsiders—one an emerging champion who happens to be Jewish, the other, the first black player to win Wimbledon—pair up not only to form a winning team, but also an enduring friendship. Althea Gibson first met Angela Buxton at an exhibition...

From the Washington Post’s first race and ethnicity reporter, a poignant investigation into the aftermath of the Great Migration, the promise of a Second Great Migration, and what future Black communities could look like across America in this eye-opening and thoughtful study, a mix of The...

An indictment of the racial terror that code-switching has wreaked upon people of color for centuries—and a vision for linguistic justice What is it like to be taught that the language that raised you is unworthy of the classroom and the workplace? To be trained to switch in and out of...

Essays discuss the status of the contemporary African American family, examining current concerns and problems, and offering possible solutions to the troubles they...

Derrick Bell is perhaps best known for the principled stand he took at Harvard in 1990 when he quit his tenured position on the law-school faculty to protest the school's failure to grant tenure to a black woman. Now a visiting professor at New York Law School, Bell is still deeply interested in...

The intimate, extraordinary biography of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, America’s first Black female psychoanalyst—written by her own daughter and featuring a new afterword Born in 1914 in New York City, raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Margaret was the only child of an Episcopal priest and...

A strategic plan for the fight against the new Jim Crow and a passionate call to get involved. From attacks on voting and civil rights to the wholesale defunding of Black institutions, Black America is facing a massive, generational attack that amounts to Jim Crow 2.0. Roland Martin argues that...

The iconic NAACP magazine’s most dynamic and daring African American voices gathered together for the first time in a groundbreaking literary collection, from founding editor W. E. B. DuBois and Jessie Fauset to today's modern day cultural critics, including June Shagaloff and Michael A...

An urgent anthology featuring some of the most eminent Black voices of our time reckoning with, reacting to, and rewriting the Declaration of Independence for both the crisis of our present moment and the promise of our future freedom When discussing the American experiment, the Declaration of...

An innovative work that explores the relationship between the Black church, the Hammond organ, and the musicians that bring it to life. The Hammond organ has long distinguished the Black church. Masters of the instrument, often Blackqueer men, invented and advanced gospel music, pioneered new...

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B...

"We tell these parts of our stories in order to heal from hurt and honor the ways we have been healing." ―Patrice Gopo, from the introduction Can Black women have thriving friendships with white women in a society steeped in the realities of racism? Can such friendships experience the presence...