Staff Recommendations

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America Hardcover – October 23, 2018
by n/a The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Author), Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Editor), Britt Rusert (Editor)

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Paperback – February 1, 2022
by Tiya Miles (Author)

We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy Hardcover – April 6, 2021
by Natalie Baszile (Author)

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

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Paperback – January 7, 2020
by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick (Oprahs Book Club 2.0) Paperback – Deckle Edge, August 24, 2021
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Author)

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

Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) Hardcover
By Lesa Cline-Ransome (author) James E. Ransome (Illustrator) – November 7, 2017

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Hardcover – September 19, 2023
by Michael Harriot (Author)