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In this meticulously researched and vividly written account, a prominent historian reclaims a forgotten incident of racial violence in the Jim Crow South. The Rifle and the Plough reconstructs a little-known episode from the summer of 1910, when the Black farming settlement of Sandy Beulah in...

Sex är ett ämne som man spontant kanske inte förknippar med religion. Men sambandet mellan de två företeelserna är starkt. Religionerna har länge format många av de normer och regler som ligger till grund för vår syn på sex än i dag. Ofta har religiösa företrädare haft en negativ...

För dig som tycker om historia. För dig som är nyfiken på en del av historien som det sällan berättats om. Kvinnohistorien. Målande, nästintill skönlitterärt berättad och samtidigt en faktaåtergivande vandring genom årtusenden. Forntida kvinnor jägare, vikingahustru, prästinna...

Vinnare av Pulitzerpriset I den här storslagna biografin skildrar Jonathan Eig medborgarrättsikonen Martin Luther King Jr. som en stor tänkare, en skicklig strateg och aktivist som ledde en av historiens största rörelser, och vars krav på etnisk och social rättvisa är lika aktuella idag...

I sin självbiografi berättar Ebonita Baldeh om hur hon som barn blev utsatt för trafficking av en nära vän till familjen. Som sexårig flicka förlorade hon för alltid sin barndom då hon hämtades hemma av en man med lovordet att få leka med hans son. Under flera år fick hon därefter...

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories. ""A book to make you love math."" —Financial Times Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the...

In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news...

In this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)—the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era—“Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such...

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. 

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable...

The first definitive history of Historically Black Theological Institutions (HBTIs) and their enduring influence on Black Christian leadership and culture. We can't understand the Black church and Black theology without understanding the influence of Historically Black Theological Institutions...

One man's extraordinary journey from slavery to freedom—in his own words. First published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most powerful and influential autobiographical works in American history. Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass recounts the...

Why do African Americans face the highest rates of chronic illness, stress-related disease, and early death? It’s not just biology—it’s the cumulative impact of history, racialized trauma, and structural neglect. In Black Wellness Barriers, Dr. Tawainna Houston—a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and cultural wellness educator—uncovers the deep roots of Black health disparities in America.

The dramatic confrontation between civil-rights activism and the establishment power of Lyndon Johnson that transformed the movement and national politics. In August 1964, at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, a Mississippi sharecropper, Fannie Lou Hamer, challenged Lyndon...

A historical examination of the Black census undercount as a transnational civil rights issue US census taking is more accurate today than when the practice was implemented over two centuries ago—yet, then and now, Black residents are undercounted. A true census count of a population by race...

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...

Black, Not Historically Black by Joseph L. Jones is a compelling exploration of the historical and contemporary challenges faced by Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Jones, a seasoned political scientist and former HBCU president, delves into the systemic issues of leadership...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Passionately read by the author, Emmanuel Acho. ‘An absolute must-read . . . Emmanuel Acho dives into important subjects like cultural appropriation and white privilege, urging you to find a way to join in the fight against racism’ – Cosmopolitan An urgent...

Compromise has three colors. The American church has a history of creating and maintaining racist ideas and practices. This audio original recording from NYT bestselling author Jemar Tisby is based on the themes introduced in The Color of Compromise but goes a step further, showing how...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that forever shaped the landscape of American race...