Black Voices
April 2025
 
Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics
by Carol Moseley-Braun

Recounts the author's groundbreaking career as the first Black woman elected to the Senate and U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, sharing stories of overcoming adversity, making history, and advocating for civil rights and justice.
Matriarch
by Tina Knowles

It's one brilliant woman's intimate and revealing story, and a multigenerational family saga that carries within it the story of America — and the wisdom that women pass on to each other, mothers to daughters, across generations.
The Can-Do Mindset: How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight For Your Passions
by Candace Parker

One of the most decorated and celebrated women's basketball players of all time breaks down her ultimate recipe to success, using her own deeply inspiring journey to teach readers how to live bravely, unapologetically, and with purpose. 
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
by Brando Simeo Starkey

Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court - even more than the presidency or Congress - aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. 
Joy goddess : A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
by A'Lelia Perry Bundles

"Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker and the author's great-grandmother and namesake, is a fascinating figure whose legendary parties and Dark Tower salon helped define the Harlem Renaissance. Now her great-granddaughter creates a meticulous, nuanced portrait of a charismatic woman struggling to define herself as a wife, mother, and businesswoman outside her famous mother's sphere.
New Fiction
King of Ashes
by S. A. Cosby

After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father's crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
The Payback
by Kashana Cauley

When Jada Williams is fired yet again, she is forced to outrun the newly instated Debt Police who are out for blood. But Jada, like any great antihero, is not going to wait for the cops to come kick her around. With the help of two other debt-burdened mall coworkers, she hatches a plan for revenge. Together the three women plan a heist to erase their student loans forever and get back at the system that promised them everything and then tried to take it back.
Great Black Hope
by Rob Franklin
 
An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Smith goes on a dizzying journey through the nightlife circuit, anonymous recovery rooms, Atlanta’s Black society set, police investigations and courtroom dramas, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era.
Coded Justice
by Stacey Abrams

A prescient new thriller in the Avery Keene series, by nationally renowned author and leader Stacey Abrams, Coded Justice follows Avery down a dark rabbit hole into the breathtaking—and dangerously evolving—world of AI in the medical industry.
When the Music Hits
by Amber Oliver

Billie Grand, a Bronx native who found salvation in music, lands a dream job at a top record label, but as she navigates grueling demands and industry corruption, she must decide whether chasing success is worth compromising her values and identity.
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