Michael Eric Dyson's Jay Z: Made in America hits the New York Times bestseller list
Dec 04, 2019
NPR names Damon Young's What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker a favorite for 2019
Dec 03, 2019
Maureen Corrigan picks Emily Bernard's Black is the Body as one of her "10 Unputdownable Reads" for 2019
Dec 03, 2019
Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage is optioned by Gabrielle Union's production company, I’ll Have Another
Nov 15, 2019
Marc Favreau's Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia is a Publisher's Weekly Best of 2019 pick
Nov 08, 2019
Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage is named first for Hurston Wright Legacy Award
Jun 25, 2019
Imani Perry's Looking for Lorraine wins 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction
Jun 06, 2019
Salamishah Tillet Opinion piece for the New York Times
May 20, 2019
Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done How the rest of the country can follow them.
Imani Perry's Looking for Lorraine wins the Shilts-Grahn award for non-fiction
Apr 26, 2019
The Shilts-Grahn award for nonfiction, which "recognizes the best nonfiction book of the year by or about lesbians, bisexual women, and/or trans women, or that has a significant influence upon the lives of queer women," went to Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry.
A starred Booklist and glowing Kirkus Review for Tanisha Ford's Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion
Apr 24, 2019
In a narrative that progresses by discrete, chronological chapters, the Tanisha Ford presents a kind of memoir of her life through certain iconic looks that she incorporated over the years, creating through hairstyle, clothes, and accessories a "powerful social skin."
Salamishah Tillet in the New York Times
Apr 15, 2019
Salamishah Tillet is a regular contributor to the New York Times. You can read her articles here.
Why the Highlander Attack Matters
Apr 12, 2019
Robin D.G. Kelley in The Nation
The arson attack on the Highlander Center, a longtime leader in racial and social-justice work, is not merely a hate crime—it’s an act of war.
The arson attack on the Highlander Center, a longtime leader in racial and social-justice work, is not merely a hate crime—it’s an act of war.
Nipsey Hussle Loved His Blackness
Apr 12, 2019
Michael Eric Dyson in New York Times
His story is so compelling because love was at the core of his beliefs and behavior.
His story is so compelling because love was at the core of his beliefs and behavior.
Grimoire Noir Kirkus Review
Apr 12, 2019
In a magical town, a teen boy seeks his missing sister. Bucolic Blackwell is unlike most other sleepy burgs: Here, girls are the sole possessors of magick, but enchanted boundaries keep them constrained within its limits. When Bucky, a reedy boy sporting a trench coat and fedora, learns his young sister, Heidi, is missing, he is immediately on the case.