Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1971-2025 John Edgar Wideman
Spike Lee
- The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America Mark Whitaker
- Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture Mark Rozzo, Fab 5 Freddy
- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World Wil Haygood
- A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors David Thomson
- The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots Jonathan Mahler
- Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers Donald Bogle, Turner Classic Movies
- Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City Brandon Harris
- Beg Borrow Steal: The Visionary Art of Melvin Van Peebles and the Rise of Independent Black Cinema Santi Elijah Holley
- Interficial ARTelligence: The Moments That Met Me Chuck D
- Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions Kimberly N. Ruffin
- A Different Girl: A Memoir Jasmine Guy, Imani Guy Duckette
- The Joe Bev Experience: Interviews Joe Bevilacqua
- 1,000 Deadstock Sneakers: The Dream Collection Larry Deadstock
- Vanity Fair: Oscar Night Sessions: A Decade of Portraits from the After-Party
- Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Al Sharpton
