| 08/24/2024: |
Anna Deavere Smith: Notes from the Field (Anchor Books, 2019 - HBO film, 2018) |
| 01/23/2024: |
Ronald L. Fair: Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (Library of America, 2023 - originally published by Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965) |
| 09/21/2023: |
Lenard D. Moore: Long Rain (Wet Cement Press, 2021) |
| 06/26/2023: |
Mona Lisa Saloy: Black Creole Chronicles (University of New Orleans Press, 2023) |
| 05/18/2023: |
Kalamu ya Salaam: Precise Tenderness: 100 Haiku (Third World Press, 2023) |
| 03/26/2023: |
Carter G. Woodson: The Mis-education of the Negro (Penguin Classics, 2023 - originally published 1933 by Associated Publishers) |
| 01/26/2023: |
Carole Boston Weatherford: Birmingham, 1963 (Wordsong PB 2023 - originally HC 2007) |
| 12/26/2022: |
Colson Whitehead: Harlem Shuffle (Anchor Books/ Penguin Random House 2021) |
| 10/06/2022: |
E. Ethelbert Miller: How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask (City Point Press, 2022) |
| 09/12/2022: |
Alice Childress: Trouble in Mind (Theatre Communications Group, 2022) |
| 06/24/2022: |
Gene Andrew Jarrett and Thomas Lewis Morgan, editors: The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Ohio University Press, 2005) |
| 05/18/2022: |
Kalamu ya Salaam: Cosmic Deputy: poetry and context 1968-2019 (University of New Orleans Press/Runagate Press, 2020) |
| 03/22/2022: |
Haki R. Madhubuti: Taught by Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected (Third World Press, 2020) |
| 02/19/2022: |
Claude McKay: Romance in Marseille (Edited and introduced by Gary Edward Holcomb and William J. Maxwell, Penguin Classics, 2020) |
| 12/31/2021: |
Charles Johnson, editor: Anthology of Black American Literature (Chicago Quarterly Review, Volume 33, 2021) |
| 09/27/2021: |
William Gardner Smith: The Stone Face (New York Review of Books Classics, 2021 - originally published by Farrar, Straus, 1963) |
| 06/25/2021: |
Kevin Young, editor: African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (LOA/Library of America, 2020) |
| 05/18/2021: |
Carmen L. Phelps: Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2013) |
| 03/30/2021: |
Vincent O. Carter: The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020) |
| 02/26/2021: |
Naomi Long Madgett: You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems (Wayne State University Press, 2020) |
| 01/21/2021: |
Barack Obama: A Promised Land (Crown/Penguin Random House, 2020) |
| 12/26/2020: |
Stephen C. Wicks, editor: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door (Knoxville Museum of Art, 2020) |
| 10/13/2020: |
Kalamu ya Salaam, editor: I Am New Orleans: 36 poets revisit Marcus Christian's definitive poem (Runagate/University of New Orleans Press, 2020) |
| 09/27/2020: |
Harryette Mullen: The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be: Essays and Interviews (The University of Alabama Press, 2012) |
| 08/30/2020: |
Thomas Sayers Ellis: Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf Press, 2010) |
| 06/28/2020: |
Jeffreen M. Hayes, editor: Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman (Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, GILES, 2018) |
| 06/16/2020: |
Nikki Giovanni: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 (HC 2003, Harper Perennial Modern Classics PB 2007) |
| 05/18/2020: |
Matthew Teutsch, editor: Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) |
| 05/14/2020: |
Veronica T. Watson, editor: The Short Stories of Frank Yerby (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) |
| 04/29/2020: |
Angela Jackson: A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Beacon Press, 2017) |
| 03/31/2020: |
Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting (David Zwirner Books, 2019) |
| 03/20/2020: |
Horace A. Porter, editor: Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work (University Of Iowa Press, 2015) |
| 02/10/2020: |
devorah major: and then we became (City Lights Books, 2016), where river meets ocean (City Lights Foundation, 2003) |
| 01/28/2020: |
The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major (University Press of Mississippi, 2019) |
| 01/20/2020: |
Kevin Prufer and Robert E. McDonough, editors: World'd Too Much: The Selected Poetry of Russell Atkins (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019) |
| 12/26/2019: |
Lynn Nottage: Sweat (Theatre Communications Group, 2017) |
| 12/19/2019: |
Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell, editors: Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (City Lights Books, 2019) |
| 11/12/2019: |
John Zheng, editor: Conversations with Sterling Plumpp (University Press of Mississippi, PB 2019, originally published i HC 2016) |
| 10/28/2019: |
Margaret Walker: For My People (Yale University Press, 2019 - originally published 1942) |
| 09/18/2019: |
Sonja D. Williams: Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (University of Illinois Press, 2015) |
| 09/05/2019: |
Margaret D. Bauer, editor: North Carolina Literary Review, Number 28, 2019: Featuring North Carolina African American Literature (University of North Carolina Press) |
| 08/15/2019: |
James C. Hall and Heather Hathaway, editors: Conversations with Paule Marshall (University Press of Mississippi, PB 2019- first published in HC 2010) |
| 08/08/2019: |
Steven C. Tracy, editor: Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance (University of Illinois Press, 2011) |
| 06/25/2019: |
Ruth Fine, editor: Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis (University of California Press, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015) |
| 06/09/2019: |
Julius E. Thompson: Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 (McFarland & Company, 1999) |
| 05/28/2019: |
John Edgar Tidwell, Steven C. Tracy, editors: After Winther: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown (Oxford University Press, 2009) |
| 05/08/2019: |
Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey, Jr., editors: The Black Chicago Renaissance (University of Illinois Press, 2012) |
| 04/12/2019: |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Trials of Phillis Wheatley (Basic Civita Books, PB 2010) |
| 04/05/2019: |
The Photographs of Gordon Parks (The Library of Congress, 2011) |
| 03/31/2019: |
Cheryl Clarke: By My Precise Haircut (The Word Works, 2016) |
| 03/27/2019: |
James A. Emanuel: Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-1989 (Lotus Press, 1991) |
| 03/04/2019: |
Camille T. Dungy, editor: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (University of Georgia Press, 2009) |
| 12/25/2018: |
Keorapetse Kgositsile: Homesoil in My Blood: A Trilogy (Xarra Books, 2017) |