Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into...
Nicholas D. and Sheryl Wudunn KristofTwo Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era—the oppression of women in the developing world—and tell us what we can do about it.An old Chinese proverb says "Women hold up half the sk...
April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. Th...
Control: Exposing the Truth About Gun...
Glenn BeckWhen our founding fathers secured the Constitutional "right of the people to keep andbear arms," they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of ...
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Bal...
Wesley LoweryThe first book to go behind the barricades of #blacklivesmatter to tell the story of the young men and women who are calling for a new America. In a closely reported book that draws on his own experience as a young biracial journalis...
Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fe...
Ben ShapiroIn this galvanizing and alarming New York Times bestseller, "Ben Shapiro shows once and for all that the left is the single greatest source of bullying in modern American life" (Sean Hannity).While President Obama and the le...
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison ...
Mumia Abu Jamal"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal … His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, ...
The Right's Road to Serfdom: The Dang...
Christopher Favrot ArndtSome political commentators have started to say that the American Right acts on its id, not on its ego of "principled" conservatism. But what does this mean? In The Right's Road to Serfdom, first-time author Christopher F. A...
Control: Exposing the Lies about Guns...
Glenn BeckWhen our founding fathers secured the Constitutional "right of the people to keep and bear arms," they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of ...
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's E...
Keisha N. BlainNational Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist 53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Brilliantl...
The King Years: Historic Moments in t...
Taylor BranchTaylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on ra...
Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Oppo...
Sheryll CashinFrom a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases ...
Human Rights: A Very Short Introducti...
Andrew ClaphamToday it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that ...
Getting to the Promised Land: Black A...
Kevin W. CosbyToo often, all oppressed people in America are lumped together under the moniker "people of color," as if each group's experience under the yoke of systemic racism has the same economic and social repercussions. But the Amer...
Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secr...
Tom EngelhardtPraise for Tom Engelhardt's The United States of Fear:"Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid. . . . A stunning polemic."—Mike DavisPraise for The American War...
Floodlines: Community and Resistance ...
Jordan Flaherty"This is the most important book I've read about Katrina and what came after. In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called 'The People's History of the Storm.' Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines."—Eve Ens...
Building a Movement to End the New Ji...
Daniel HunterExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change....
Prejudential: Black America and the P...
Margaret Kimberley"This book is an effort to shed light on the truth. . . . To the extent that our leaders embody aspects of who we are as a people, studying how each president has participated in our nation's complicated and often shameful treatm...
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery...
Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroe...
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Co...
Martin Luther KingIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailab...
The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia,...
Arun Kundnani"The new front in the War on Terror is the "homegrown enemy," domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. D...
Crossing the Thinnest Line: How Embra...
Lauren Leader-ChiveeFROM THE VERY FOUNDING OF OUR NATION, diversity has been one of our greatest strengths but also the greatest source of conflict. In less than a generation, America will become "minority-majority," and the world economy, alre...
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Fr...
Don LemonDon Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular ...
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate:...
Anthony F. LewisMore than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordin...
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of ...
Wesley LoweryLA Times winner for The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseA New York Times bestsellerA New York Times Editors' Choice A Featured Title in The New York Times Book Review's "Paperback Row"A Bustle "17 ...
Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to...
Jamie Margolin"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambiti...
The School I Deserve: Six Young Refug...
Jo NapolitanoUncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation Journalist Jo Napolitano delves into the landmark case in which the School Distri...
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Soci...
Johanna NeumanNew York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolutionIn the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont,...
Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing,...
Zach NorrisA groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized com...
In It For the Long Haul: Overcoming B...
Kathy ObearIn It for the Long Haul helps social justice change agents stop burning out and reclaim their energy to create meaningful change. Social justice change agents often feel exhausted and overwhelmed by the urgent need for change; yet, th...
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals ...
Jason L. RileyWhy is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact hold...