Celebrate Black Voices with Broadleaf Books
Celebrate Black Voices with Broadleaf Books
By Bookshop.org
Throughout the centuries, Black writers have used literature as a way to understand the both the joy and brutality of the world around them. These words continue to change the world, by drawing attention to the generational oppression and inequality in this world, as well as sharing stories about how to live, grow, and love. During Black History Month, and all year long, we celebrate and honor the work of Black Americans. Below are powerful books that explore the Black experience, in all its intersections.
Broadleaf Books is the new adult nonfiction imprint of 1517 Media. Our books inspire transformation in readers and their communities to foster a more open, just, and compassionate world.
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
Khristi Lauren Adams
$18.99 $17.66Unbossed is a hopeful and riveting inquiry into the lives of eight young Black women who are agitating for change and imagining a better world.
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change Without Losing Your Joy
Karen Walrond
$26.99 $25.10Activist Karen Walrond shares strategies to help you define the actions that bring you joy, identify the causes about which you are passionate, and put them together to create change.
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith
Monica A. Coleman
$19.99 $18.59Bipolar Faith is both a spiritual autobiography and a memoir of mental illness. In this powerful book, Monica Coleman shares her life-long dance with trauma, depression, and the threat of death.
United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
Lenny Duncan
$22.99 $21.38A story about growing up Black and queer in the US, examining issues like poverty, mass incarceration, white supremacy, and LGBTQ inclusion through a portrayal of life's struggles and joys.
You Mean It or You Don't: James Baldwin's Radical Challenge
Adam Hollowell and Jamie McGhee
$24.99 $23.24Through a rich examination of James Baldwin's writing and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't spurs today's progressives from conviction to action.
A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community
Adam Russell Taylor
$26.99 $25.10Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, calls for a shared moral vision that transcends partisanship to live out our nation's best ideals and realize a more perfect union.
Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color
Khristi Lauren Adams
$18.99 $17.66Thought-provoking and inspirational, Parable of the Brown Girl is a powerful example of how God uses the narratives we most often ignore to teach us the most important lessons in life.
The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton
Sophfronia Scott
$18.99 $17.66Sophfronia Scott mines the extensive private journals of one of the most influential contemplative thinkers of the past for guidance on how to live in these fraught times.
Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the Us
Lenny Duncan
$16.99 $15.80Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of communities of faith and calls everyone to the front lines of the church's renewal through racial equality and justice.
Worth It: Overcome Your Fears and Embrace the Life You Were Made for
Brit Barron
$24.99 $23.24Worth It shares Brit Barron's heartbreaking and redemptive story to inspire us to overcome the fears that keep us from evolving beyond the narratives that have been defined by others
Strength to Love
Jr. Martin Luther King
$24.00 $22.32In these meditative and sermonic pieces, all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, Dr. King articulates his deeply personal commitment to justice.
The Last Blues Preacher: Reverend Clay Evans, Black Lives, and the Faith That Woke the Nation
Zach Mills
$26.99 $25.10Brings the life and work of Reverend Clay Evans into our time and examines how current national conversations on race, religion, politics, and popular culture can and should inform contemporary activism.
Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King: Commemorative Edition (Commemorative)
Martin Luther King and Octavia Vivian
$16.10In the wake of the assassination of her husband, the nation witnessed the beauty and composure of Coretta Scott King as she continued civil rights work.
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