Black History Month Reading, 2026

Without Sanctuary

Lynching Photography in America

Published by Twin Palms Publishers.
Edited with text by James Allen. Text by John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, Hilton Als.

“Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe—don't want to believe—that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago. These photographs bear witness to . . . an American holocaust." –John Lewis, US Congressman

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Twin Palms Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 212 pgs / 98 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/1/1999
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ISBN 9780944092699 FLT45
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Black Photojournalism

Published by Carnegie Museum of Art.
Edited by Charlene Foggie-Barnett, Dan Leers. Foreword by Deborah Willis. Introduction by Eric Crosby. Roundtable discussion by Tina Campt.

A landmark survey of Black American photojournalism spanning 1945 to 1984, chronicling a critical period in the civil rights movements in the United States

PUBLISHER
Carnegie Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 55 color / 190 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/2/2025
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ISBN 9780880390767 TRADE
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The Harlem Book of the Dead

Published by Primary Information.
Photographs by James Van Der Zee. Poems by Owen Dodson. Text by Camille Billops. Introduction by Toni Morrison. Afterword by Karla FC Holloway.

Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee's unflinching creative vision

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Primary Information

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 104 pgs / 27 duotone / 29 bw.

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Pub Date 10/14/2025
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ISBN 9798991036726 TRADE
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Gordon Parks: Born Black

A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960–1970

Published by Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation.
Edited with text by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Michal Raz-Russo. Text by Jelani Cobb, Nicole R. Fleetwood.

Parks' impactful images from the forefront of the civil rights and Black Power movements

PUBLISHER
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 304 pgs / 116 color / 86 bw.

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Pub Date 6/25/2024
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Gordon Parks: Pastor E.F. Ledbetter and the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, 1953

Published by Steidl.
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., Melanee C. Harvey. Text by Melanee C. Harvey, Abby R. Eron, Reverend Ernest F. Ledbetter Jr., Reverend Ernest F. Ledbetter III, Kymberly Pinder, J.T. Roane, Kera Street, Darlene R. Taylor.

The first feature article that Parks both wrote and photographed is reassembled through previously unseen images, contact sheets, ephemeral material and Parks' original manuscript

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 59 color / 96 bw.

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Pub Date 12/2/2025
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Arthur Jafa: Live Evil

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Flora Katz, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos. Text by Norman Ajari, Tina M. Campt, Liam Gillick, Ernest Hardy, Saidiya Hartman, R.A. Judy, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Julian Myers, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Peter Saville, James A. Snead, Greg Tate, Peter Watts.

An expansive survey of video, installation and more from Arthur Jafa, whose practice is "a counterpunch to anyone who wants to put people of color in their place" (Wes Hill)

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 360 pgs / 157 color / 98 bw.

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Pub Date 9/9/2025
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Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Hendrik Folkerts. Text by Lia Gangitano, Elisabeth Lebovici, Jennifer Doyle, Darby English, Sheldon Gooch, Tavia Nyong’o, Frank Rodriguez, Angela Seo, Marc Siegel, Jamie Stewart, Lisa Teasley, Julie Tolentino, Wu Tsang, et al.

Welcome to the wondrous world of Vaginal Davis: visual artist, punk rocker, "drag terrorist" and genderqueer icon

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.75 x 11 in. / 312 pgs / 100 color.

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Pub Date 11/11/2025
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ISBN 9783753306438 TRADE
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The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

Published by DelMonico Books.
Edited with text by Katherine Jentleson. Foreword by Rand Suffolk. Text by Kim Conaty, María Elena Ortiz, Elizabeth Penton, Wayne Evans.

Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawings

PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 192 pgs / 157 color / 17 bw.

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Pub Date 1/6/2026
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Head—The Mind

Published by No More Rulers.
Edited with foreword by Larry Warsh. Text by Sophia Heriveaux.

An oversize, faux-leather-bound volume presenting a focused selection of Basquiat's energized depictions of heads and faces

PUBLISHER
No More Rulers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 15 in. / 76 pgs / 24 color / 5 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/28/2025
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ISBN 9780986000829 TRADE
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Soul of a Nation

Art in the Age of Black Power

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/26/2017
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Jack Whitten: The Messenger

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Michelle Kuo. Text by Julie Mehretu, Glenn Ligon, Anna Deavere Smith, George Lewis, Sampada Aranke, Mark Godfrey, Richard Shiff, Annie Wilker, Michael Duffy, Dana Liljegren, David Sledge, Helena Klevorn, Kiko Aebi, Eana Kim, JaBrea Patterson-West.

The first full retrospective of Whitten's dazzling and trenchant abstraction from the 1960s–2010s, which transformed the relationship between art, race and society

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.

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Pub Date 4/22/2025
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John Wilson: Witnessing Humanity

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Edited with text by Jennifer Farrell, Leslie King Hammond, Patrick Murphy, Edward Saywell. Text by Michele Cohen, Leslie and Lisa Farrington, Destinee Filmore, Edmund Barry Gaither, Elisabeth Hodermarksy, Ekua Holmes, Shelley R. Langdale, Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Theresa Leininger-Miller, James Manigault-Bryant, Martha Richardson, Lowery Stokes Sims, James Stroud.

Through paintings, sculptures, drawings and more, John Wilson's work foregrounds the human experience and refuses invisibility

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 228 pgs / 150 color.

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Pub Date 4/1/2025
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Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

Published by DelMonico Books.
Edited with text by Erin Christovale. Foreword by Ann Philbin. Text by Franya J. Berkman. Interviews by Ashley Kahn, Erin Christovale.

Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz

PUBLISHER
DelMonico Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 192 pgs / 110 color / 21 bw.

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Pub Date 2/11/2025
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This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

Published by DelMonico Books.
Edited with text by Hilton Als, Rhea L. Combs. Foreword by Rhea L. Combs.

Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism

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DelMonico Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color.

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Pub Date 9/17/2024
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Tom Lloyd

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Foreword by Thelma Golden. Text by Connie H. Choi, Reinhard Bek, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Nikita Gale, Habiba Hopson, Glenn Ligon, Krista Thompson.

A milestone publication shedding light on the groundbreaking contributions of an under-recognized artist whose art and activism resonates in contemporary culture

PUBLISHER
Gregory R. Miller & Co.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 168 pgs / 238 color / 25 bw.

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Pub Date 10/14/2025
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ISBN 9781941366844 TRADE
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