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Cover of Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.
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Tao Leigh Goffe
“Award-winning historian, professor, and journalist Tao Leigh Goffe, launches an investigation of the Caribbean as the seat of corrupt Western wealth and environmental…
Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Uché Blackstock
“Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an…
Cover of Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America
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Denise M. Lynn
“Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the 20th century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total…
Copy of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
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Adam Shatz
“In the era of Black Lives Matter, Frantz Fanon’s shadow looms larger than ever. He was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution…
Cover of Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
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David Maraniss
“Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A…
Cover of Breaking Barriers: The Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary
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Kaki Madhava Rao
“Born in Pedamaddali village of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh in 1939, K. Madhava Rao did his early schooling in a village school, Degree course in Hindu College, Masulipatnam…
Cover of The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
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Michele Harper
“Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated…
Cover of Letters to My White Male Friends
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Dax-Devlon Ross
“In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. Finally, white men…
Cover of Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
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Yusef Salaam
“They didn’t know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one’s life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam’s seven years…
Cover of United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
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Lenny Duncan
“A deeply personal story about growing up Black and queer in the U.S. In his characteristically powerful voice, Duncan recounts hitchhiking across the country, spending time in…