Staff Recommendations

Everyday Ubuntu: Living better together, the African way Hardcover – International Edition, September 19, 2019
by Nompumelelo Mungi Ngomane (Author)

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

Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen Hardcover – Illustrated, September 27, 2022
by George McCalman (Author)

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives Hardcover – January 31, 2023
by Siddharth Kara (Author)

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts paperback – June 1, 2021 by Rebecca Hall (Author) and Hugo Martinez (Illustrator)

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)

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Paperback – February 9, 2016
by Angela Y. Davis (Author), Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface)

Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook Hardcover - March 1, 2021 by Michael W. Twitty

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

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)

Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) Paperback – May 1, 2022
by Michael Lawrence Dickinson (Author)

How The Word is Passed - June 1, 2021
by Clint Smith
who visits Whitney in Chapter 2