Dionne Brand | Bread Out of Stone | Brand turns her clear, unflinching eye to issues of sex and sexism: male violence toward women; how Black women learn the erotic; the vulnerability of
Barbara Burford | The Threshing Floor | In the pioneering work, Towards a Black Feminist Criticism, Barbara Smith examines the realities of criticizing works that are both Black feminist and
Nikky Finney | Head Off & Split | ‘Nikky Finney has been a fine poet much too long to say that this latest treasure is her promise coming into being. She exploded with so much talent w
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne
Kalynn Bayron | Cinderella Is Dead | It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men
Gumbs Alexis Pauline | Spill | In Spill, self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of scenes d
Hope Larson; Brittney L. Williams; Noah Hayes; Kat Leyh | Goldie Vance | We’re back for another arc with master teen detective Goldie Vance! This time it’s a real ‘fast-paced’ mystery, as Goldie’s investigations take her to
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | How We Get Free | If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.’ –Combahee River Collective Statement
