So, you've already read the classics — Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston. But what's next? Here are 10 nonfiction books, all published in the past five years, that can help you expand ...

OPERATIONS IN NORTH AFRICAN WATERS, OCTOBER 1942-JUNE 1943 (297 pp.) —Samuel Eliot Momon—Little, Brown ($5). More words were written and read about World War II than any other war in history. But much ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) has released a new book investigating the evolving concept of Afrofuturism, a lens used to reimagine the futures and ...

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Ghanaian photojournalist Paul Ninson was thrilled — and surprised. When he came to New York to study photography five years ago, he found a trove of images of life in Africa, past and present, in the ...

Academics debate how to represent and teach the nation’s pastThe old South African history books once told tales of valiant Dutch ALSO SEE: South African History: 2 Views settlers who trekked to the ...

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A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

For our Best of Dallas 2025 issue, celebrating banned books, we spoke with some of the players in Dallas’ book world, including Akwete Tyehimba from Pan-African Connection. Check back for our ...

Tara Green grew up in New Orleans listening to family members tell stories about their roots. Her father was from Mississippi, so the storytelling was peppered with the harsh experiences of the Deep ...