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The term “unhoused” has become more popular, but how do we define homelessness? And why do so many myths persist in the ...
01/24/2025

The term “unhoused” has become more popular, but how do we define homelessness? And why do so many myths persist in the media?

Many assume the majority of people living on the streets struggle with mental illness or just need jobs — and that homelessness is unfortunate, but intractable. Longtime advocate for the unhoused, Mary Brosnahan, argues that these are myths, and that much of what we assume about homelessness is wr...

OMG! We had no idea that Graham Norton was a fan of Octavia Butler’s KINDRED!
01/24/2025

OMG! We had no idea that Graham Norton was a fan of Octavia Butler’s KINDRED!

“I’m very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books,” says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls “Frankie” his “first happy romance.”

“I’m often motivated to write because I have questions or want to explore or attempt to understand something.”—Danielle ...
01/24/2025

“I’m often motivated to write because I have questions or want to explore or attempt to understand something.”—Danielle Legros Georges

A Q&A with Danielle Legros Georges | I recently took an early retirement after teaching graduate students for two decades at Lesley University. When I taught, I was interested in activating the prior knowledge of my students, understanding that they had much to contribute to the learning spaces we w...

Props to Ms. Magazine for the shout-outs to NO HUMAN INVOLVED and A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US in their 2025 feminist rou...
01/23/2025

Props to Ms. Magazine for the shout-outs to NO HUMAN INVOLVED and A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US in their 2025 feminist roundup!

Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025—new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups.

You can’t deny the massive influence the ROOTS miniseries had on TV when it had its premiere on this day in 1977 and on ...
01/23/2025

You can’t deny the massive influence the ROOTS miniseries had on TV when it had its premiere on this day in 1977 and on Black genealogy.

By Alondra Nelson | As a wide-eyed girl watching Roots, and wondering about mine, I never could have dreamed a future where one day I’d have the surreal experience of having my genealogical results revealed to me before a crowd of African diaspora VIPs and civil rights leaders, and with a prominen...

Part of why Omo Moses wrote THE WHITE PERIL was to show how his great-grandfather’s consciousness is evident in who he’s...
01/23/2025

Part of why Omo Moses wrote THE WHITE PERIL was to show how his great-grandfather’s consciousness is evident in who he’s become and in the work of his father, Bob Moses.

The MathTalk founder weaves three generations’ tales together in his "family memoir," out this week.

Why do the cases of murdered Black women and girls not get an adequate level of urgency? We caught up with Cheryl L. Nee...
01/22/2025

Why do the cases of murdered Black women and girls not get an adequate level of urgency? We caught up with Cheryl L. Neely to chat about her book NO HUMAN INVOLVED.

A Q&A with Cheryl L. Neely | When I wrote my first book, “You’re Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide,” I shared the story of the murder of my schoolmate and friend, Michelle Kimberly Jackson in 1984 in the book’s prologue, focusing on th...

Men like the 47th president were not new to Dr. King. Dr. King was familiar with bullies and was determined rather than ...
01/22/2025

Men like the 47th president were not new to Dr. King. Dr. King was familiar with bullies and was determined rather than traumatized in their presence.

The inauguration stands in stark contrast to the message of Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday.

This handful of titles from our catalog will set us on the runway of life to get tens across the board for progress and ...
01/22/2025

This handful of titles from our catalog will set us on the runway of life to get tens across the board for progress and self-reinvention!

By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing ourselves for the greater good. What shall we work on? Expanding our minds about what Buddhis...

01/21/2025

Happy book birthday to Dr. Mary Frances Berry! 💥

SLAVERY AFTER SLAVERY, the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them, “is essential reading” (Dorothy Roberts, author of TORN APART).

01/21/2025

Happy book birthday to Cheryl L. Neely! 🎊

NO HUMAN INVOLVED, her urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, is “a vital, infuriating addition to the literature on racial prejudice in US law enforcement” (Publishers Weekly, ⭐Starred Review).

01/21/2025

Happy book birthday, Omo Moses! 📐

THE WHITE PERIL, his brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in the US that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family, is “a stirring blend of family history and coming-of-age narrative” (Publishers Weekly).

No matter the administration, Dr. King was so right when he said “we must honestly face the fact that the movement must ...
01/20/2025

No matter the administration, Dr. King was so right when he said “we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society.”

By Martin Luther King, Jr. This is no time for romantic illusions and empty philosophical debates about freedom. This is a time for action. What is needed is a strategy for change, a tactical program that will bring the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible. So far, this....

So unfortunate that the inauguration of a certain returning president coincides with Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King’s ...
01/20/2025

So unfortunate that the inauguration of a certain returning president coincides with Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King’s words sum up how we got here . . . again.

Did you know that it took 15 years of lobbying by civil rights leaders and sympathetic legislators to finally convince C...
01/20/2025

Did you know that it took 15 years of lobbying by civil rights leaders and sympathetic legislators to finally convince Congress to commemorate today, Martin Luther King Day?

Today, Martin Luther King is revered for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights in the United States. But most Americans didn't approve of him before his death, or many years after.

We caught up with Boston-local poet Danielle Legros Georges to chat about her collection, THREE LEAVES, THREE ROOTS, the...
01/17/2025

We caught up with Boston-local poet Danielle Legros Georges to chat about her collection, THREE LEAVES, THREE ROOTS, the newest volume in our Raised Voices poetry series.

A Q&A with Danielle Legros Georges | I recently took an early retirement after teaching graduate students for two decades at Lesley University. When I taught, I was interested in activating the prior knowledge of my students, understanding that they had much to contribute to the learning spaces we w...

Props to WBUR 90.9 FM for their shout-out to David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe’s AFTER DOBBS in this roundup!
01/17/2025

Props to WBUR 90.9 FM for their shout-out to David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe’s AFTER DOBBS in this roundup!

From self-improvement tips to practical activism to escapist romance, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette has a selection of books to help set intentions for the months ahead.

With the rise of Trumpism, Dana Frank made a conscious decision to return to researching and writing about US history fr...
01/17/2025

With the rise of Trumpism, Dana Frank made a conscious decision to return to researching and writing about US history from the 1930s and class politics.

In the 1930s, American workers organized during the Great Depression, prompting government response. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, historian Dana Frank discusses her book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? We'll also explore current organizing efforts by IRIS workers in Kansas C...

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