The Story of Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra
By Arjun Singh Sethi Immigration authorities detained longtime immigrant rights activist, Jeanette Vizguerra, in Denver last week. Jeanette has lived in Colorado for more than twenty years and is at ...
Read an Excerpt from KING OF THE NORTH
In the powerful, myth-shattering book King of the North, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jeanne Theoharis argues that Martin Luther King Jr.'s time outside of the South was ...
Read an Excerpt from Bad Law
In Bad Law, Elie Mystal, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate ...
Read the introduction to Labor's Partisans
Read the introduction to Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today, edited by top American labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti. With ...
Read an Excerpt from The Price They Paid
Read an excerpt from The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forret, recipient of the Frederick Douglass Prize. In a work of profoundly ...
Read an Excerpt from A Second Chance
Read an excerpt from A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It by Judge Frederic Block. In a rare glimpse behind the bench, Judge Block recounts the cases ...
Read an Excerpt from The Miracle of the Black Leg
Read an excerpt from The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law by the renowned Nation columnist—aka the Mad Law Professor—Patricia ...
Read an Excerpt from The Fear of Too Much Justice
Read an excerpt from The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by renowned death penalty lawyer Stephen B. Bright and ...
Read the Introduction to Charging Forward
Read the introduction to Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor. A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean ...
Read an Excerpt from Won't Lose This Dream
Read an excerpt from Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System by award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel. Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose ...
Read an Excerpt from Poverty For Profit
Read an excerpt from Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by veteran journalist Anne Kim. A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex," a vast web ...
A Lore Segal Reading List
Lore Segal was a master storyteller known for capturing the immigrant experience with wit and a keen eye, with the New York Times Book Review once saying, “Lore Segal may ...
Read an excerpt from Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
Read the first chapter from the graphic adaptation of Lies My teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen, adapted and illustrated by Nate Powell. Since its first publication in the ...
Honoring the Memory of Nine Inspirational Black Women
In Blackbirds Singing, a collection of public addresses by inspirational Black women, Janet Dewart Bell recognizes their powerful voices, vision, and efforts toward a more just society. Bell takes the ...
Read an Excerpt from Blackbirds Singing: Audre Lorde on Race, Sex, and Class
In Blackbirds Singing, renowned author Janet Dewart Bell has curated an incredible collection highlighting influential Black women who fought and continue to fight for liberation. Featuring the inspirational vision of ...
Raja Shehadeh Is a Finalist for the National Book Award
Widely considered Palestine’s leading writer, Raja Shehadeh is a lawyer, activist, and founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq. The winner of the Orwell Prize and many other accolades, Shehadeh’s ...
Read an Excerpt from Side by Side
In times of turmoil books become important resources that can elucidate history, can provide nuance to news headlines, and can examine and illuminate some of the most important issues of ...
Read an Excerpt from Except for Palestine
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick argue that one-sided pro-Israel policies reflect the truth-bending grip ...
How the United States Covers Up the Real Costs of War
By Dora Usdan, Summer 2023 intern Norman Solomon’s new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine examines the tactics used by the United ...
Read an Excerpt from Charisma's Turn
Monique Couvson’s trailblazing book Pushout laid the groundwork for understanding how our schools are failing Black girls; her follow-up, Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues, provided a blueprint for their ...
Celebrating Feminist Economist Devaki Jain during Women’s History Month
An acclaimed economist and researcher, Devaki Jain has penned dozens of influential books and essays championing social justice, democracy, and the empowerment of women. Now, in her insightful memoir, Jain ...
The Lifecycle of Your $25 Fast Fashion Impulse Buy
Alyssa Hardy’s provocative, compelling, deeply researched debut Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins investigates the intersecting labor exploitation and environmental devastation of the fashion industry. The fashion ...
Three Steps Toward Police Abolition
The Black Lives Matter movement, reinvigorated during the summer 2020 uprisings, galvanized hundreds of thousands of people into the streets and ushered the slogan “defund the police” into wide circulation ...
Words of Wisdom from Howard Zinn
Author, activist, and historian Howard Zinn would have turned one hundred years old on August 24, 2022. To celebrate his birthday we’ve collected some powerful quotes from Zinn’s Truth Has ...
