US History Books by BIPOC Authors
- by Char Adams
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2025
Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for...
- Discrimination and Racism, History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2025
In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a...
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2024
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia―and sought to transform their lives. How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life...
- History, Nonfiction, US History
- Publication Year: 2024
The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants. Most Americans...
The Cruelty is the Point
To many, our most shocking political crises appear unprecedented—un-American, even. But they are not, writes The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer in this prescient essay collection, which dissects the most devastating moments...