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Howard Zinn On Race

Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all black...

The Vulture

Gil Scott-Heron

The Vulture is the first novel by the leg­endary poet, musician, and so-called “godfather of rap,” Gil Scott-Heron, written while he was still a student at Lincoln University in...

Lucy Parsons

An American Revolutionary

Carolyn Ashbaugh

A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all conventions of her turbulent era. An outspoken woman of color, radical writer, and labor organizer, Parsons led...

Take Back the Land

Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown

Max Rameau

In October 2006, a group of housing activists called Take Back the Land seized control of a plot of public land in Miami, Florida and built an encampment that would become known as the Umoja...

Fields of Resistance

The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice

Silvia Giagnoni

Migrant farm workers in the United States are routinely forced to live and work in unsafe, often desperate, conditions. In Immokalee, Florida, the tomato capital of the world—which has earned the...

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying

A Study in Urban Revolution

Dan Georgakas

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark...

Truth and Revolution e-book

A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986

Michael Staudenmaier

In the 1970s and 1980s, as the movements of the sixties receded from view, the revolutionary left in the United States went through a series of profound political, demographic, and cultural...

The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

Danny Dorling

Equality is the coming issue of our day. Societies all over the world are experiencing spiraling inequality, led by countries such as the US and Britain, which reached their high-water mark of...

I Must Resist

Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters

Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin has been called the “lost prophet” of the civil rights movement. A master strategist and tireless activist, he is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one...