What Is Hip-Hop?
A beautifully illustrated children’s history of hip-hop, from a progressive/idealistic perspective.
I Disappeared Them
Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust (Paperback Edition)
Stay Positive Limited Edition Preorder Package
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer
So You Wanna Run a Country?
Featured: Black Interest
Home Girl
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises
An authentic and riveting hip-hop memoir in the Joan Didion tradition from Bronx native Lewis.
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Kevin Holohan — Irish Arts Center (New York, NY)
5/2/24, 7:00pm
Kevin Holohan presents So You Wanna Run a Country? in conversation with Joseph O’Neill
Tananarive Due — LitFest in the Dena (Altadena, CA)
5/4/24, 5:00pm
For the Love of Horror featuring Tananarive Due in conversation with Jervey Tervalon: Tananarive Due and Jervey Tervalon share their views about the rise of the black horror sub-genre into mainstream media. Is it a modern-day reinvention? Although contributions to horror have been largely ignored, Black writers have been pioneers of the genre since the […]
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Limited Edition Preorders and Special Offers
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Quarantine Q&A: David Duchovny
Akashic publisher Johnny Temple about basketball, music, literature, and more—in under 5 minutes!
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