Beacon Press

11/08/2025

Samantha Paige Rosen had a few ideas in mind about what she wanted the cover art of her book, LIVING, TOGETHER, to look like. Here’s how it came together.

What is a home? That is what writer and editor Samantha Paige Rosen sought to answer in the essay anthology, Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection. In it, over twenty …

11/07/2025

On National Cancer Awareness Day, we’re thinking about the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company employees who sought justice after getting bladder cancer from worker neglect.

The United States says it cares about blue-collar workers, but the worker protections in place tell a different story, reports Jim Morris.

11/07/2025

Atash Yaghmaian wrote her memoir in English. Had she written it in her native Persian, she said she wouldn’t have talked about living with dissociative identity disorder.

When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. There’s irony in that, of course. I wrote in English, but my name, “Atash”—which means “fire” in Persian—is…

11/06/2025

Today, those who are Black and Indigenous are negotiating challenges and bringing a new perspective to what it means to be a nexus of more than one cultural identity.

Not appearing Indigenous is just one of the challenges those who are Afro Indigenous face from colorism within tribal groups, to recognition of their contributions.

11/06/2025

In order to fight fascism and racism and to create just, global societies, we must embrace what Lewis Raven Wallace calls radical unlearning as a collective practice available to all of us.

Podcast Episode · Interdependent Study · 10/29/2025 · 32m

11/06/2025

Unfortunately, none of these rollbacks against Black women leaders is a surprise. Author Gloria Browne-Marshall notes how many of these were previewed during Trump’s first term.

The president's first administration set the groundwork for federal investigations against Black women leaders.

11/05/2025

THIS SATURDAY!

The Free Black Women's Library is hosting LaShawn Harris’s chat about her Eleanor Bumpurs biography, TELL HER STORY, from 3-4:30PM EST. There’s still time to reserve your spot. Come through, Brooklyn!

Join us for an author chat & book signing featuring LaShawn Harris talking about her powerful and important new book TELL HER STORY

11/05/2025

Digital literacy and civics education are not just academic skills but now essential tools for preserving democratic participation in this era defined by disinformation and surveillance capitalism.

Drew Perkins talks with Heidi Boghosian about her book, In Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy.

11/05/2025

During our authoritarian timeline, the focus shouldn’t be on how to change people’s minds, but rather on what conditions make it possible to let go of long held beliefs and ideologies and how to create them.

In a Q&A with Prism, journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace discussed his new book “Radical Unlearning,” a guide for breaking free from harmful ideologies

11/04/2025

ICYMI. Photo dump from our fabulous time at the Boston Book Festival!

11/04/2025

Costumes are a way of fighting 47’s absurdity with absurdity. Author Gloria Browne-Marshall points out how the civil rights movement protesters used similar nonviolent tactics.

Puffed-out costumes — hippos in tutus, Mr. Potato Heads, dinosaurs — have become a feature of protests against the Trump administration