Books

For more than two decades, attorney Ben Crump has stood on the front lines of the nation’s ongoing civil rights battles. Known as “Black America’s Attorney General,” Crump has been acknowledged as one of the Most Influential People of 2021 by Time, one of Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 Most Influential African Americans, and is listed among […]

After turning Judy Blume’s classic novel into a critically acclaimed television series, Mara Brock Akil is debuting a book of her own. Brock, responsible for hit series like Forever, Being Mary Jane, and Girlfriends and more, is entering the fiction space with her debut novel, The Revelation of Dionne Daphne. “I wrote this novel with

Amy DuBois Barnett’s debut novel just recently dropped, and she’s already taking her talents to television. Formerly an editor-in-chief for Ebony magazine and Honey, as well as the deputy editor of Harper’s Bazaar, Barnett made history when she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the United States, Teen People. 

Ahead of the highly anticipated film adaptation of her 2018 novel Children of Blood and Bone, author Tomi Adeyemi is set to release her next book, a standalone novel titled The Siren, later this year. According to People, Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, announced the news on Tuesday and

Suezette Yasmin Robotham has recruited talent for companies such as Google, Meta and Salesforce, and she knows the significance of a title or work persona. However, in an era marked by career disruption and economic uncertainty, Robotham is shifting how professionals see themselves with her new book, Beyond Titles: Fearlessly Leading and Living Authentically at

Bed-Stuy is getting a new home for books, culture and conversation under the direction of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones is teaming up with New York entrepreneurs Rotimi and Ayo Akinnuoye and Baldwin & Co. owner DJ Johnson to open The North Star Books + Bar, which wil lbe inside the former Macon Hardware storefront at

Blavity Books is returning to Blavity Inc.’s AFROTECH Conference this year, which is being held from Oct. 27 to Oct. 31 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. This year, Blavity Books is partnering with Houston-based community bookstore Kindred Stories, which will be the official book seller at the conference. Ahead of AFROTECH

Solange Knowles is making sure rare Black works are not forgotten. The Grammy winner announced the launch of “The Saint Heron Digital Archive Library: Part I,” a digital archival library of rare, out-of-print and first-edition works by Black and brown artists on Sept. 25. The library offers U.S.-based readers the chance to borrow titles, many