Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded by W. Paul Coates 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 Tony Martin, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B.

[3] The primary mission of the press is to publish obscure and significant books by and about people of African descent.

[5] In the same vein, he established BCP Digital Printing in 1995 as an affiliated company of Black Classic Press.

"[9] The result was so successful that in 2003 the press collaborated again with Mosley to publish What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace (2003), part memoir and part call to action for African Americans after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.