The preeminent scholar of black Unitarian Universalist history presents this long-awaited chronicle and analysis of the events of the Empowerment Controversy.

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control

Available for pre-order

From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity - not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change

Imani Perry is the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America

Winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Copublished with the Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Society

An engaging account of the roles that UU individuals and congregations played in the civil rights movement in the South in the 1950s and ’60s.

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

A history of America’s Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin

A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of The Black Church and The Black Box.

The inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023

The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justice

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.

Offers a way to think about AI that can reinvigorate the reader's sense of human agency and possibility