Black Classic Press
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| Parent company | Black Classic Press |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Founder | W. Paul Coates |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Distribution | Publishers Group West |
| Fiction genres | Non-fiction and fiction |
| Imprints | Black Classic Press W.M. DuForcelf INPRINT EDITIONS |
| Official website | blackclassicbooks.com |
Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Dorothy B. Porter, as well as reissuing significant works by Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden, Bobby Seale, J. A. Rogers, and others.
W. Paul Coates (father of Ta-Nehisi Coates) founded Black Classic Press in 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland, originally working from the basement of his house. The company is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in operation in the United States.
The primary mission of the press is to publish obscure and significant books by and about people of African descent. John G. Jackson, John Henrik Clarke, and Yosef Ben-Jochannan were major influences in defining the mission and early direction of the press. The company publishes about six titles annually; most are out-of-print historical books that the company brings back into print.
The first books published by the company were pamphlets printed on a photocopier that Coates purchased. In the same vein, he established BCP Digital Printing in 1995 as an affiliated company of Black Classic Press. The printing company, a million-dollar business, serves as the printer for the publishing company as well as for other companies and organizations in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.
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