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    Call Them by Their True Names

    by Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

  • Black Queer Hoe

    by Britteney Black Rose Kapri

    A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.

  • Citizen Illegal

    by José Olivarez
    Citizen Illegal is a book composed in the space between Mexico & America. It is a celebration of Chicano joy, a shout against erasure, and a vibrant re-imagining of Mexican American life.

  • The Battle For Paradise

    by Naomi Klein

    “We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it...

  • Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
    Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

    Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.
    A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

  • Class War, USA

    by Brandon Weber
    An engaging collection of riveting stories about working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

  • How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

  • No Is Not Enough

    by Naomi Klein
    “This year's most immediately useful political book.” —Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    An indispensable contribution to the movement for racial justice in “postracial” America.

Featured Authors

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    Devin Allen

    “Devin Allen could be the Gordon Parks of his generation.”
    —NBC BLK

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    Michael Bennett

    “There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. Michael Bennett's name deserves mention alongside the best of us.”
    —Dr. John Carlos

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    Angela Y. Davis

    "Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
    —Alice Walker

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    Eve L. Ewing

    "Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

    –Chicago Magazine

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    Naomi Klein

    "Naomi Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the left–what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago."
    —The New Yorker

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    Aja Monet

    “Aja Monet’s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds.”
    —Angela Y. Davis

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    Arundhati Roy

    “Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time."
    —Cornel West

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    Rebecca Solnit

    "No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
    —Maria Popova

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    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    "Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
    —The Root

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    Howard Zinn

    “Few people changed more lives than Howard Zinn."
    —Naomi Klein