... an inspiring book of historical observations, poetry, scholarship, and vignettes.

Whether you know only a little about Black history or a great deal, it’s a rich and rewarding book.

African American history is a communal quilt, crisscrossed with the stitches of elders, youth, LGBTQ folk, mothers, fathers, revolutionaries, and poets.

A compendium of essays and poems chronicling 400 years of Black American history.

Bestseller Kendi and historian Blain present an engrossing anthology of essays, biographical sketches, and poems by Black writers tracing the history of the African American experience from the arrival of the first slaves in 1619 to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.