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North Americans

Going Steady (Limited Edition)

Rochelle Alers

Home and Away

Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of…

Blu & Exile

Miles

2020 sind acht Jahre seit Blu & Exile's letztem Album »Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them« vergangen. Ihr gemeinsamer Indie-Hip-Hop-Kultklassiker »Below The Heavens« erschien bereits 2007. Da…

Wheeler Parker, Christopher Benson

A Few Days Full of Trouble

In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest o…

Tamron Hall

Watch Where They Hide

From Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring journalist Jordan Manning as she delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that co…

Tamron Hall

Watch Where They Hide

Following her powerhouse debut, As the Wicked Watch, Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall returns with another edge-of-your-seat Jordan Manning thriller. This time Jordan delves into the case of a missing mother…

James E Lyons

From the Projects to the Presidencies

"Raised in a public housing project in New Haven, Connecticut, James E. Lyons Sr. overcame the difficult circumstances of his childhood to flourish academically, eventually becoming president of six unive…

Audrey Dwyer

Calpurnia

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspectiv…

August Wilson

The Ground on Which I Stand: 25th Anniversary Edition

A 25th anniversary edition of August Wilson’s seminal speech calling for the funding and support of Black theatres and theatermakers in America.

Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, Mathieu Murphy-Perron

Blackout

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal's Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against the…

Sharon Bridgforth

From the Marrow: Volume 1

From the Marrow Vol. 1 collects five ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, and con flama. Rooted in blues an…

Carl Phillips

Then the War

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's Then the War I'm a song, changing. I'm a light…

A Nation Takes Place

Artistic perspectives on the connections between water and nation, sovereignty and ecology Neither the metaphorical birth of a nation nor its actual violent formation is a one-time event. It is a proces…

Katori Hall

The Hot Wing King

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Hot Wing King is a ghost-pepper-hot comedy about chosen family, queer love, and Black masculinity. The pressure is on as Memphis’s annual “Hot Wang Festiva…

Permanent Record

A visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown, and m…

Amanda Gorman

For There Is Always Light

An inspirational journal filled with rousing quotes from Presidential inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman’s #1 New York Times bestsellers The Hill We Climb and Call Us What We Carry. For there is a…

Michael Kleber-Diggs

My Weight in Water

A powerful exploration of race and swimming by a writer who "see[s] the world whole, allowing daily intimacies against a backdrop of social injustice" (New York Times). Michael Kleber-Diggs and his twin …

Ronnie Greene

Heart of Atlanta

The Heart of Atlanta Supreme Court decision stands among the court's most significant civil rights rulings. In Atlanta, Georgia, two arch segregationists vowed to flout the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the…

K C Mills

You Could Do Damage

A dangerous dance of passion and power unfolds when two wounded souls collide in this sizzling unconventional romance by national bestselling author K.C. Mills. Nari Collette finds herself on the brink o…