Storyteller

Anna is a 2x New York Times bestselling author. Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, CNN, Katie Couric Media, Motherly, the Huffington Post, For Harriet, The Guardian, Darling Magazine, and Blavity. Her first book, titled The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, was published by Flatiron Books in February of 2021. The book became a NYT bestseller and has received critical acclaim. Her second book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us, was released on May 20th of 2025. Erased became an instant New York Times Bestseller and an instant USA Today Bestseller. Her storytelling career has only just begun. She is working on her next nonfiction book, a novel, a children’s book series, and several screen projects.

BOOKs

Erased:
What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy.

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How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America’s most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.

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