Akashic Books

Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

The powerful memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era.

Fearless Vampire Killers: The Bad Brains Photographs

This collection includes Glen E. Friedman’s most iconic images of Bad Brains, as well as many never-before-seen photographs and endsheet art by Shepard Fairey.

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Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story

A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.