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    How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    Reflections on the legacy and impact of radical black feminists of the 1970s on today's feminist and anti-racist movements

  • Electric Arches

    by Eve L. Ewing
    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.

  • On New Terrain

    by Kim Moody
    An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US.

  • No Is Not Enough

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

  • A Beautiful Ghetto

    by Devin Allen
    Allen asks us to see beyond the the violence and poverty that all too often defines the "ghetto."

  • Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People

    by Danny Katch
    A sharp-witted indictment of our broken political system and a vision for a socialist alternative that is truly by and for the people.

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

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

  • A People's History of Chicago

    by Kevin Coval
    Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.

  • Men Explain Things To Me

    by Rebecca Solnit
    A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word “mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

Featured Authors

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    Devin Allen

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

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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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    Deepa Kumar

    "An antiracist and antiwar activist, as well as a model scholar-teacher, Kumar has written a comprehensive and most readable guide to exposing and opposing the hatred of Islam."
    —Gilbert Achcar

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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 incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness."
    —Junot Díaz

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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