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News for All the People

The Epic Story of Race and the American Media

Juan González

Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions...

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...

Hidden Ballgames

Race and Major League Baseball's Other Histories

James Generic

Beneath the surface of nostalgia of Major League Baseball, the most powerful baseball organization in the world, lurks a different history. It is one of upholding Jim Crow racial segregation for...

Towards Collective Liberation

Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy

Chris Crass

Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective...

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...

Sugaree Rising

A Novel

J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

Set in the South Carolina coastal area Lowcountry in the late Depression years, Sugaree Rising is the story of community resistance to a massive community relocation forced by a Tennessee...

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...