Beacon Press

11/21/2025

Born in 1891 in Germany, Emma Heinrich, dubbed “The Girl Bandit of Passaic County,” explored her own trans identity before our modern concept of gender.

Emma Heinrich’s story shows us how young trans girls explored their identities before our modern concept of gender.

11/20/2025

Dr. Terence Keel is on the road, touring with his new book, THE CORONER’S SILENCE! Roll up to these bookstores near you and join us as he unmasks the systemic failures within forensic medicine!

11/20/2025

In our 500 years of protest history, there’s always been a commonality of issues around protest. Today, Author Gloria Browne-Marshall says the commonality is fear about whether or not our democracy is crumbling.

Civil rights attorney, activist, and author Gloria Browne Marshall discusses various political topics and her new book "A Protest History of the United States". Assistant Director for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library Mary Stein speaks on the importance of the upcoming vote for the Thrive EBR part...

11/20/2025

Trauma work is grief work. Healing from trauma means learning to be with the grief. Margeaux Feldman wrote all about it in TOUCH ME, I’M SICK.

Coach Tyler and Dr. Lisa Folden sit down with writer and educator Margeaux Feldman to explore how healing begins when we reclaim the parts of ourselves we we...

11/19/2025

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W. Ralph Eubanks’s WHEN IT’S DARKNESS ON THE DELTA unearths the buried history of the Mississippi Delta, revealing a microcosm of economic oppression in the US—and the seeds for its transformation. Enter our Goodreads giveaway by December 13 for a chance to win a copy!

Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 14-Dec 13, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 first edition copies of When It’...

11/19/2025

It wasn’t just Sacheen Littlefeather. News stories about people claiming to be Indigenous have become more frequent in the past decade. Dina Gilio-Whitaker got to the bottom of where pretendianism comes from.

People have been pretending to be Native American for decades. While talking about ethnic fraud is tricky, one Native scholar says it’s necessary.

11/19/2025

Harrison Browne became the first openly trans player in the history of professional team sports in the US, coming out to ESPN while playing for the Buffalo Beauts in the National Women’s Hockey League. He’s one of Toronto Life’s Rising Stars of 2025!

Our annual list of the up-and-comers shaping our city and the world

11/18/2025

To be read during Native American Heritage Month and beyond, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s THE IDEA OF AN ENTIRE LIFE is one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025!

Here's why it made the list

11/18/2025

Happy Publication Day, Marc Meyer! 🍲

VOICES FROM THE KITCHEN, a collection of personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in NYC that shows how indispensable and fascinating they are, “uplift[s] the stories of the inspiring people who make our country great” (José Andrés).

11/18/2025

We need to pay attention to the younger Palestinian generation. There is a human capital there that would be able, Ilan Pappé believes, to restructure the Palestinian liberation movement.

In spite of Israel’s military dominance over its regional foes, is the Zionist entity actually at its most vulnerable point in history? And more importantly — can it sustain the Jewish state project?

11/17/2025

THIS WEDNESDAY!

Dr. Terence Keel will be at Politics and Prose Bookstore to chat about his book, THE CORONER’S SILENCE, with Dr. Michelle Goodwin, at 7PM. First come, first seating at the Wharf venue!

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11/17/2025

You don’t need to have personal religious convictions in order to realize that religion is (still) important and to see how it shapes the world and our discourse.

Megan Goodwin is senior editor for Religion Dispatches, nerd-in-chief at Feral Nerd Consulting, and media & tech consultant for The Crossroads Project. Goodwin is the author of Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, S*x Scandals, and American Minority Religions (Rutgers 2020). With Ilyse Morgen...