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  • The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History

    Mehrsa Baradaran

    eBook

    A concise history that uncovers the roots of this most pernicious American divide and makes an urgent call for reparations

  • Load in Nine Times: Poems

    Frank X. Walker

    Paperback

    In this stirring new collection, Frank X. Walker reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers—including his own ancestors—who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation

  • The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide

    Howard W. French

    Hardback

    One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy. “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

  • American Slavery, American Freedom

    Edmund S. Morgan, Annette Gordon-Reed

    50th Anniversary Edition

    Paperback

    The classic exploration of the connection between freedom and slavery, with a bold new introduction from prominent historian Annette Gordon-Reed

  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

    Farah Jasmine Griffin

    Paperback

    Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Myumba, Boston Globe)