Social Activists
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The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
$30.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – WINNER OF THE 2025 Z?CALO BOOK PRIZE
A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the glo- Author: Bauer, Jean-Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0593321685
- Language: English
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Go, Wilma, Go!: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist
$18.99 Add to cartGood Housekeeping Kids’ Book Award Winner
* “An engaging and insightful biography of an American hero–highly recommended.” –School Library Journal, starred review Wilma Rudolph was a champion on the- Author: Davis, Amira Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1547612096
- Language: English
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The Day King Died: Remembered Through Two Voices and a Choir: Remembered Through Two Voices and a Choir
$18.95 Add to cartWhen Martin Luther King Jr. landed in Memphis on April 3, 1968, no one knew he would be killed the next day. When he gave his famous Mountaintop speech, no one knew it would be his last. And when the … [more below]
- Author: Bausum, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1478886420
- Language: English
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A Crown That Lasts: You Are Not Your Label
$29.99 Add to cartIn A Crown that Lasts, former Miss Universe and Miss South Africa Demi Tebow confesses the danger of tying our identities to our accomplishments. Discover the truth of who you were created to be and h
- Author: Tebow, Demi-Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1400343585
- Language: English
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
$34.00 Read more#1 New York Times Bestseller
NAACP Image Award Winner
From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America’s struggle for fr
- Author: Reid, Joy-Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063419181
- Language: English
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Don’t Wait: Three Girls Who Fought for Change and Won
$16.95 Read moreYou don’t have to be an adult to fight for what you believe in — and win.
The remarkable stories of 3 young women activists of color fighting for some of today’s most pressing movements of defunding t… [more below]- Author: Kohli, Sonali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0807010952
- Language: English
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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
$29.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to d- Author: Jones, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1639733531
- Language: English
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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
$32.50 Add to cartA comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes–from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “p… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1982144211
- Language: English
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America’s towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political … [more below]
- Series: Significations
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593492420
- Language: English
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Who Is Billie Jean King?
$6.99 Read moreLearn about the amazing life of the former world No. 1 tennis player who fought for gender equality in sports! Billie Jean King’s legacy as a tennis star, a feminist, and an LGBTQ+ trailblazer shines … [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593519175
- Language: English
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Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing, and Searching for Home
$30.00 Read moreCNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota’s memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980
- Author: Camerota, Alisyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1644283719
- Language: English
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
$28.00 Add to cartThe empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.
Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and has established herself as a- Author: Afualo, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614059
- Language: English
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The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoir
$30.00 Read moreFrom the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, of breaking from a community of hate.
When coded language and creeping au- Author: Black, R. Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1419764780
- Language: English
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The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements
$19.99 Add to cartINTRODUCING THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNG READERS TO ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S MOST COURAGEOUS FREEDOM FIGHTERS, YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921 — 2014).
Debut children’s picture book author Kai Naima Willia
- Author: Williams, Kai Naima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1960571001
- Language: English
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
$30.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography – A Washington Post Notable Book – Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award -One of Smithsonian Magazine‘s Ten Best History Books of… [more below]
- Series: Significations
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593491165
- Language: English
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Gen Z Teens Take Action: Stories of Circumstance, Passion and Opportunity
$21.95 Add to cartGen Z Teens Take Action: Stories of Circumstance, Passion and Opportunity tells the stories of fourteen real teens and tweens who found themselves in every day growing-up moments observing life around
- Author: Peterson, Kelli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1977280579
- Language: English
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography – A Washington Post Notable Book – Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award -One of Smithsonian Magazine‘s Ten Best History Books of… [more below]
- Series: Significations
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0593491181
- Language: English
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Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
$24.00 Add to cartOn a quest for what matters most, Timothy Shriver discovers the joy of being fully alive
As chairman of Special Olympics, Timothy Shriver has dedicated his life to the world’s most forgotten minority-- Author: Shriver, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535825
- Language: English
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The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
$39.99 Add to cartThe Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from best-selling author Howard W. French about Africa’s pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild’s contention that Fren… [more below]
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092459
- Language: English
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Who Was Wilma Mankiller?
$6.99 Add to cartLearn about the life and legacy of the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation! Wilma Mankiller’s struggle for political change throughout her life will be sure to inspire reade… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Page, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593888871
- Language: English
