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Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

House Woman

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

Black Girl, Call Home

Crowned: Magical Folk and Fairy Tales from the Diaspora

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Women of the Post

Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

Temple Folk

Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women

Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

I Am Ayah: The Way Home

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Just as I Am

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Everybody Come Alive: A Memoir in Essays

African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Belonging: A Culture of Place

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

Black Designers in American Fashion

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

Wildflower: A Memoir

Dances

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Homebodies

Memphis

Ordinary Notes

Muse Found in a Colonized Body

Not Everyone is Going to Like You: Thoughts From a Former People Pleaser

Stash: My Life in Hiding

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

June Jordan: Her Life and Letters

An Autobiography of Skin: A Novel

The Color Line

Spectra

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Pomegranate

I Am Debra Lee

Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Black Women Writers at Work

The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin

This Is What I Know About Art

BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Ain’t I a Woman?

Lorna Simpson Collages:

Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

She Memes Well

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets

The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Token Black Girl: A Memoir

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Black Internet Effect

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Please Sit Over There: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women

On Juneteenth

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

The Women of Brewster Place

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir

African American Women of the Old West

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Autobiography as Activism

Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

The Street

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Woman of Color

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Lakewood

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

A Black Women’s History of the United States

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches