The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce the promotion of John McLeod to the expanded role of Chief Operating Officer & Director of Intellectual Property. In this position, McLeod...

From a critical exploration of what it means to be a legible body in Queer Embodiment, to Hell-Bent for Leather’s deep dive into the ways sex and sexuality are imagined in “weird” western media, this year’s pride reading list highlights enduring scholarship in Gender and Sexuality studies while also featuring stories that portray LGBTQ+ realities. Slow Guillotine TEO RIVERA-DUNDAS Slow Guillotine…

For anyone who pays attention to major literary awards, it will come as no surprise that university presses figure prominently among celebrated and vigorous publishers of contemporary poetry. In th…

When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 17, 1911, at ...

Regina King plays Shirley Chisholm in Netflix's biopic focusing on her groundbreaking 1972 presidential run

Valentine’s is right around the corner, and, regardless of your feelings about such days, it’s easier to agree on one thing we can all love: new books. And, if that sounds like you, the…

Recommended book and readings written by women that shed light on Black history and the Black experience in the U.S.

The NBCC has named its 30 finalists in six categories for this year's awards, which recognize books from the publishing year 2023. ‘Washington Post’ critic Becca Rothfeld, author Judy Blume, and t...

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbu...