Staff Recommendations

The Message Hardcover – October 1, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author)

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South - Paperback - January 7, 2020

Black Creole Chronicles Paperback – May 23, 2023
by Mona Lisa Saloy (Author)

Africans In Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Revised Edition
by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Hardcover – January 7, 2025
by Irvin Weathersby Jr. (Author)

James: A Novel Hardcover – March 19, 2024
by Percival Everett (Author)

The American Daughters: A Novel Hardcover – February 27, 2024
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Author)

Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the New Orleans Streets to the Table Hardcover – February 7, 2023 by Toya Boudy

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Hardcover -
November 16, 2021
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson (Authors) and Nikkolas Smith (Illustrator)

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking Hardcover - November 5, 2019 by Toni Tipton-Martin (Author) & Jerrelle Guy (Photographer)

Empire of Cotton: A Global History Paperback – November 10, 2015
by Sven Beckert

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Paperback – October 25, 2016
by Edward E. Baptist