Curated Lists 2022

• A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib

  Publication Date: 2021

  “Gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance.”—Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half.
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• 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  Publication Date: 2017

  The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing.
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• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

  Publication Date: 2016

  In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
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• The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby

  Publication Date: 2019

  An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically—up to the present day—worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.
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• How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

  Publication Date: 2021

  The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith gives us a revealing contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation.
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• Long Time Coming by Michael Eric Dyson

  Publication Date: 2020

  Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life - and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism.
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