--Kofi Natambu, Editor
Brick City Vanguard:
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity
by James Smethurst
University Of Massachusetts Press, 2020
A People's History of Detroit
by Mark Jay and Phillip Conklin
Duke University Press, 2020
The Essential Clarence Major: Prose & Poetry
by Clarence Major
The University of North Carolina Press, 2020
From Here To Equality:
Reparations For Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
by William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen
The University of North Carolina Press, 2020
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest
by Ian Zack
Beacon Press, 2020
Surviving Autocracy
by Masha Gessen
Riverhead Books, 2020
Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
W.W. Norton & Company, 2020
Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015
by Julian Bond
(Edited by Michael G. Long)
City Lights Books, 2020
Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure
by Maria Golia
Reaktion Books, 2020
Afropessimism
by Frank B. Wilderson III
Liveright, 2020
The Fascism This Time
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire
by Pankaj Mishra
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is What America Looks Like:
My Journey From Refugee To
Congresswoman
by Ilhan Omar
Dey Street Books, 2020
Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Random House, 2020
Begin Again:
James Baldwin's America And Its Urgent Lessons For
Our Own
by Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Crown Books, 2020
Set The Night On Fire: L.A. In The Sixties
by Mike Davis & Jon wiener
Verso, 2020
We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders
by Linda Sarsour
37 INK (an imprint of Simon and Schuster), 2020
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy
by Jacob Soboroff
Custom House, 2020
ReaganLand: America's Right Turn: 1976-1980
by Rick Pearlstein
Simon and Schuster, 2020
Full Dissidence:
Notes From An Uneven Playing Field
by Howard Bryant
Beacon Press, 2020
African American Poetry:
250 Years of Struggle and Song
Edited by Kevin Young
The Library of America, 2020
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Fascism This Time and the Global Future of
Democracy
by Theo Horesh
Cosmopolis Press, 2020
Hiding in Plain Sight:
The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion
of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Flatiron Books, 2020
The Purpose of Power:
How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
by Alicia Garza
One World, 2020
Hatemonger:
Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the
White Nationalist Agenda
by Jean Guerrero
William Morrow, 2020
Black Power Afterlives:
The Enduring Significance of the
Black Panther Party
Edited by Diane C. Fujino and Matef Harmachis
Haymarket Books, 2020
American Oligarchs:
The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of
Money and Power
by Andrea Bernstein
W.W. Norton and Company, 2020
The Last Negroes At Harvard:
The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who
Changed Harvard Forever
by Kent Garrett and Jeanne Ellsworth
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
Donald Trump v. The United States:
Inside the Struggle To Stop A President
by Michael S. Schmidt
Random House, 2020
Dorothy Day:
Dissenting Voice of the 20th Century
by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph
Simone and Schuster, 2020
Those Who Know Don't Say:
The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom
Movement, and the Carceral State
by Garrett Felber
The University of North Carolina Press, 2020