Social Activists
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Bono: Stories of Surrender
$21.00 Add to cartAn updated and abridged edition of Bono’s bestselling memoir, including a new introduction by the author, Bono: Stories of Surrender is an unforgettable love story, a tribute to fatherhood, friendship… [more below]
- Author: Bono
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
$35.00 Add to cart“Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. It will become a Black classic.”– Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road
“Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The
- Author: Eshun, Ekow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063450526
- Language: English
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I Didn’t Come Here to Lie: My Life and Education
$27.95 Add to cartAn intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.
In 2012, Karen Lewis led the
- Author: G. J. Lewis, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888902530
- Language: English
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Heroes and Other Mortals: Stories of Our Better Angels
$29.95 Add to cartFrye Gaillard did not set out to write this book. One day as he was thumbing through a cardboard box of his essays, columns, and profiles, he simply realized that he had done it. Each article told the
- Author: Gaillard, Frye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1588385442
- Language: English
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A Fighting Dream: The Political Writings of Claudia Jones
$21.95 Add to cartClaudia Jones stood at many crossroads. Her world was one of heated battles for Black liberation, of anti-fascism in the build-up to World War II, of national liberation struggles across the Global So
- Author: Jones, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1736850091
- Language: English
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Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant’s Journey
$20.95 Add to cartEmma Violand-S?nchez knew little English when she arrived in Virginia from Bolivia in the summer of 1961 as a high school senior. In the decades that followed, she would lose a husband in Vietnam, rai… [more below]
- Author: Violand-S?nchez, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888246467
- Language: English
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How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
$15.99 Add to cartOdyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner
Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black t
- Author: Keith Jr, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063296012
- Language: English
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Pilgrim: A Theological Memoir
$23.99 Read moreFollow the faith journey of Tony Campolo, one of the most influential figures in modern evangelical Christianity
Millions of Christians know Tony Campolo as a popular speaker, bestselling author, par- Author: Campolo, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0802884946
- Language: English
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Encounters with Men
$25.95 Add to cartEncounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are a lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers… [more below]
- Author: Ostertag, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1625570899
- Language: English
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Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartIn this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.
Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly t
- Author: O’Kane, Trish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063223163
- Language: English
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Beyond They/Them: 20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse People You Should Know
$21.99 Add to cartBeyond They/Them is a captivating, gorgeously illustrated book celebrating 20 trailblazing nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit individuals who have left an indelible mark on music, sports, film and… [more below]
- Author: Dickson, Em
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1524893994
- Language: English
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonate… [more below]
- Author: Van Nguyen, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0385550022
- Language: English
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The Story of Fannie Lou Hamer: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$7.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Fannie Lou Hamer–a story about using your voice for kids ages 6 to 9
Fannie Lou Hamer was a key figure in the fight for civil rights in the United States. Before she became an imp
- Series: The Story Of: Inspiring Biographies for Young Readers
- Author: Weston, Margeaux
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886509373
- Language: English
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The Radical King
$19.00 Add to cartA revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X
“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle takin- Series: King Legacy #11
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0807034525
- Language: English
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You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024
$44.95 Read moreA new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally p- Author: Ali, Tariq
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290904
- Language: English
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Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
$30.00 Add to cartBlack transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ histor… [more below]
- Author: Tourmaline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 593185668
- Language: English
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Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers
$19.99 Add to cartIn collaboration with the Malcolm X Estate, this powerful biography for young readers is a modern classic in the making, written by #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Ib
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 374311862
- Language: English
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We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today
For many- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593735102
- Language: English
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Qui n fue C sar Ch vez? (Who Was Cesar Chavez? Spanish Edition)
$6.99 Add to cartYa disponible en espa?ol!
Conozca m?s sobre C?sar Ch?vez, el famoso activista mexicoamericano de los derechos civiles. Cuando era joven, C?sar y su familia mexicoamericana trabajaban en los campos c- Series: ?qui?n Fue?
- Author: Rau, Dana Meachen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593754700
- Language: Spanish
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The Story of Fannie Lou Hamer: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$15.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Fannie Lou Hamer–a story about using your voice for kids ages 6 to 9
Fannie Lou Hamer was a key figure in the fight for civil rights in the United States. Before she became an imp
- Series: The Story Of: Inspiring Biographies for Young Readers
- Author: Weston, Margeaux
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886509526
- Language: English
