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A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has...

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has...

In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and...

The story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eat In Transfarmation,...

The inspiring story of a Black doctor deeply affected by the violence in his childhood that plagued his Brooklyn community who was determined to be a force for change and dedicated himself to...

Black women physicians? stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women?s history, and in black history. It?s time to set the record straight No...

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and...

An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy?from the stories of its survivors The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light...

A thoughtful, warm, and witty introduction Understanding the Bible is designed to help empower skeptics, seekers, nonbelievers, and those of a liberal and progressive outlook to reclaim the Bible...

National 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. . . ...

Author: Eboo PatelPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: May 09, 2023Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0807008230ISBN-13: 9780807008232

Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice...

Four stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression Drawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the...

What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect The Practice Of MedicineAuthor: Danielle OfriPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: May 06, 2014Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - 9780807014776Author: Aubrey GordonPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time A must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news...

An esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics?at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and...

With faith, hope, and compassion, acclaimed religion scholar Timothy Beal shows us how to navigate the inevitabilities of the climate crisis and the very real?and very near?possibility of human...

In 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...

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality...

A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award Finalist Shows how government created ?ghettos? and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality?and...

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness...

The national best-selling memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family "This sobering portrayal of a pregnant teen exiled from her small New Hampshire community is a testament...

Women And Other Monsters: Building A New Mythology - 9780807055540Author: Jess ZimmermanPublisher: Beacon PressPublication Date: Mar 08, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Dispatches from the regenerative landscape, where pioneering entrepreneurs use their businesses as catalysts of change to go beyond sustainability and solve social and environmental problems...

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man?s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi...

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man?s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi...

An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures ?Your parents are so amazing for adopting...