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12/05/2025

According to Dr. Terence Keel, one of the missing parts of criminal justice reform is paying attention to medical examiners and coroners who cover up deaths caused by police violence.

Terence Keel joins the show. He is Professor of Human Biology & Society UCLA. He’s the author of the new book, "The Coroner’s Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence". Keel’s

12/05/2025

Psst! If you want to give the gifts of resistance this holiday to your loved ones, Bookshop can suggest some our books as stocking stuffers. 😉

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

12/04/2025

Congrats to Russell Cobb! GHOSTS OF CROOK COUNTY is a David J. Weber Book Prize finalist! We have just the right drink for this special occasion!

12/04/2025

We need to call gaslighting what it is—a form of psychological and civic abuse. It’s a form of censorship, and we must expose its tactics.

It has become commonplace for readers who do not like or agree with the news we present to claim it as “biased.” The era of “fake news” has seemingly cleared

12/03/2025

Hey, Detroit! You still have time to reserve a spot at the Detroit Public Library for Author Gloria Browne-Marshall’s talk with Orlando Bailey about her book A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. First come, first serve. It’s tonight at 6PM EST!

The attorney and professor explores 500 years of protest in US history with her latest book alongside journalist Orlando Bailey.

12/03/2025

Tis the season to high five Publishers Weekly for their shout-out to Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s WHO GETS TO BE INDIAN in this roundup!

November is Native American Heritage Month, and the fall has brought an embarrassment of great new books by Native American authors.

12/03/2025

Dr. Yaba Blay is Most Incredible Studio’s inaugural artist in residence! Her first collaboration uses the art of LEGOs as a testament to Black womanhood.

Scholar Dr. Yaba Blay partners with MIS to create The BAMBOO, a LEGO artifact celebrating the cultural currency of Black womanhood.

12/03/2025

Did you know that mega thinktanks have a lot in common with megachurches? Did you know how active they are online and contribute to the demise of our democracy?

Attorney and author Heidi Boghosian joins Steve to discuss the surveillance-security state as a tool of class discipline and repression. Tech giants, corporate media, and both political parties collude to weaponize information.

12/02/2025

Big thanks to The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs for the shout-out to Ilan Pappé’s ISRAEL ON THE BRINK in their November-December new arrivals roundup!

In this timely book, historian Ilan Pappé argues that with the 2022 election of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli war on Gaza, political fractures inherent in the Jewish state

12/02/2025

Those who continue to boycott Target because of the company’s anti-DEI stance are protesting, which is still effective in the 21st century! Like Author Gloria Browne-Marshall reminds us, there’s more than one way to protest.

Podcast Episode · We the Unhoused · 11/18/2025 · 1h 4m

12/02/2025

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

38 years since James Baldwin became an ancestor. And these words of his apply to what’s happening now.

From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village; I took this to me…

12/01/2025

THIS WEDNESDAY!

Dr. Terence Keel is coming to town to chat about his new book, THE CORONER’S SILENCE, with Zohra Ahmed at 7PM. Harvard Book Store is hosting their event. Come through, Cambridge!

Here are the details: https://www.harvard.com/event/terence-keel