Black Politics

Editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ‘80s, this anthology centers around mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices.

David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.

C.L.R. James
This volume provides a brilliant and accessible summation of the ideas of left Marxist giant C.L.R. James. An essential introduction to a body of work as necessary and illuminating for this century as it proved for the last.

Russell Maroon Shoatz • Editors: Fred Ho and Quincy Saul
This is the first published collection of Maroon's accumulated written works, and also includes new essays written expressly for this volume.

C.L.R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs
This is a pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and a reclamation of Marx.

Robert Hillary King
This story is simply and humbly told, it strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome.

Ronald A. Kuykendall
This alternative perspective on the problem of American race relations takes sharp aim at issues of status, power, and political class.

Jalil A. Muntaqim
This second edition of We Are Our Own Liberators consists of the prison writings of Jalil Muntaqim, which have spanned over the nearly forty years of his imprisonment.

Editors: Elizabeth Betita Martínez, Mandy Carter, and Matt Meyer
A collection of articles from scholars and activists exploring the major points of intersection between white supremacy and the war machine and what needs to be done.

C.L.R. James
Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance.

Nalo Hopkinson
“Report from Planet Midnight” takes on race and racism in literature. In “Message in a Bottle,” an American Indian who doesn't like children is befriended by a strange four-year-old, who seems wise beyond her years.

Derrick Weston Brown
Poet Derrick Weston Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.

Angela Davis
Angela Davis talks about the history of slavery, the struggles for freedom, and their implications for life in the U.S. today in a speech given on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade.

Gary Phillips
Follow Vietnam vet Magrady as he weaves through the underbelly of Los Angeles to find his missing wheechair-bound buddy who might be in hot water with some major L.A. players.

Terry Bisson
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful.

C.L.R. James
In this volume, Noel Ignatiev, provides an extensive introduction to James' life and thought, before presenting two critical works that illustrate the tremendous breadth and depth of James' worldview.

E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning is poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller's second memoir. Now available in paperback!

Jimmy O'Halligan, scott crow, and Ann Harkness
Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States.

Big Noise Films
Jena, LA - In a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives.