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04/29/2025

Huzzah! Unleash the balloons and confetti! Jaclyn Moyer won the 2025 Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction for ON GOLD HILL!

04/29/2025

New to spirituality and drawn to Eastern traditions and practices? Pierce Salguero’s A LAMP UNTO YOURSELF is the perfect beginner’s guide!

Pierce Salguero: A Lamp Unto YourselfA Lamp Unto Yourself: Initiations into Eastern Spiritual CurrentsFor seekers attuned to the subtle dimensions of the spi...

04/29/2025

Even if 47’s admin doesn’t clamp down on abortion provision, local supports for patients and continued voting for pro-choice candidates are all essential in keeping abortion accessible.

Roe Is Gone, Abortion Isn’t: Authors Carole Joffe and David Cohen on the Resilience of Reproductive Freedom and Access

04/28/2025

“Am I watching reporting or opinion?” This basic question gets at why media literacy is so crucial to teach so younger generations can make sense of what David Pakman calls the echo machine.

America appears to be in free fall and 30% of the country seems on board for a million decisions they didn’t vote for and will only hurt them? How is that po...

04/28/2025

“Teaching this country’s history is protest.” That’s what Author Gloria Browne-Marshall said at her talk at Harvard Book Store about her book A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES with Judith LeBlanc. Can we get an amen? Thanks to everyone who came to witness this historic meeting of the minds!

04/28/2025

From encroaching state power to an increasingly unchecked role of religion in politics, Mona Eltahawy knows an autocratic regime when she sees one.

Coming from Egypt, I know a dictatorship when I see one. The same can’t be said for the white voters who brought Trump to power, says author Mona Eltahawy

04/25/2025

Author Gloria Browne-Marshall launched her book tour this week and she’s on the road with A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES!

Come join us as she inspires us with stories from our past of all varieties of resistance! More dates to come.

04/25/2025

TONIGHT! The local PBS station in Washington, DC, is rebroadcasting DEFYING THE N***S: THE SHARP’ WAR at 8PM EST. It can also be streamed on PBS’s website. À propos viewing for the timeline we’re in.

DEFYING THE N***S: THE SHARPS’ WAR, a new documentary co-directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky about a little-known but important mission by an America...

04/25/2025

Parents are expected to insulate their children from many harms. When you’re a disabled parent like Jessica Slice, inaccessibility sets up more obstacles.

For disabled parents, the built environment can be inaccessible – but we are showing that there are countless ways to have bodies and minds

04/24/2025

Progressive media doesn’t need to mimic right-wing tactics directly. We need to take stock of the ecosystem where they became effective.

My talk show, “The David Pakman Show,” has found a huge audience among a sea of right-wing podcast competitors. Here’s how we did it.

04/24/2025

These 2 SCOTUS cases could dismantle public education and allow public schools to be Sunday schools.

Analysis: The cases — over a district’s opt-out policy and a religious charter school — could have ramifications for school systems nationwide.

04/24/2025

“[M]anosphere masculinity is, at best, a multilevel marketing scheme, and at worst, a form of crypto. Those men it lures invest everything into it.”—Michael Andor Brodeur

By Michael Andor Brodeur | These days there’s a guru waiting around every corner for young men to come clicking. They cover fitness, diet and nutrition, dating, politics, philosophy (however rudimentary), and, their favorite topic, masculinity—its dire state, its necessary preservation, its unlo...

04/23/2025

On DNA Day, remember that genetics has become a medium through which the unsettled past is reconciled.

By Sharon Leslie Morgan | As a genealogist, DNA has intrigued me ever since its first promotion as a consumer product in 2003. That was the year Dr. Rick Kittles launched African Ancestry, a company that specializes in uncovering the genetic origins of people of African descent. It marked twenty-eig...

04/23/2025

THIS FRIDAY!

Harvard Book Store is hosting Author Gloria Browne-Marshall’s talk about her book A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US with Judith LeBlanc. No tickets required. Come through, Cambridge!

https://www.harvard.com/event/gloria-j-browne-marshall