Black Lives Matter

An American Marriage

Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is artist on the brink of an exciting career. They are settling into the routine of their life together, when they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a deeply insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward- with hope and pain- into the

If Beale Street Could Talk

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t

Black Women’s Blueprint

Black Women’s Blueprint is dedicated to social justice organizing in order to promote the struggle of Black women and girls in the context of larger racial concerns. “Our mission is to provide services and spaces for healing, reconciliation and human connection with the natural world. Working with land, we bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics.” “We are building a Reconciliation Center. We invite you to join us in building this vision for holistic reconciliation grounded in spirit, steeped in liberation and honoring our understandings of human connection with the natural world. Take action with us to create paths to peace, restoration, social, economic and environmental

New People

From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary

Community Justice Action Fund

The Community Justice Action Fund is committed to building power within Black communities to end gun violence. Community Justice works to reduce gun violence in Black and Brown communities by empowering those closest to the pain CJAF is the only national gun violence organization led by a woman of color, and is proud to be led by a governing board made up of 100% survivors of

We Were Eight Years in Power

In these urgently relevant essays,* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath*—including the election of Donald