Book Reviews

Is “retail therapy” your favorite pastime—even though you really can’t afford it? Do you ignore

This significant work reveals the powerful story of a people who have been largely invisible

Notes in Praise of Black Performance At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather McGhee’s specialty is the

Atlanta photographers Regis and Kahran Bethencourt help children celebrate their beauty and their culture through

Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. From the beet fields of North

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 The story begins in 1619—a year before the

An American Journey by Kamala Harris. From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America’s most

A groundbreaking study by Charles C. Mann that radically alters our understanding of the Americas

New memoir by the late actress, lecturer, and activist Cicely Tyson—one of the most respected

A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower So what if it’s true that Black women are

Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is a timely, heartfelt book that uses history to