Social Activists
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State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built
$18.00 Add to cartSocial justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author) in this searin… [more below]
- Author: Mallory, Tamika D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1982173475
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of A. Philip Randolph: Union Organizer and Civil Rights Activist
$8.99 Add to cartYou may have heard about labor organizers like Cesar Chavez, who helped organize farmworkers in California. But decades earlier, A. Philip Randolph started a union for Black porters who worked on Pull… [more below]
- Series: First But Forgotten
- Author: Tyner, Artika R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1669069907
- Language: English
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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
