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Available for pre-orderThe life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality.#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs’s…
Hardcover | By LaShawn Harris | From Beacon PressTagged as: Anti-Racism, History, History, Racial Justice -
Available for pre-orderA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of colorFor over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability
Paperback | By Dara Baldwin | From Beacon PressTagged as: Disability, History, History, Intersectionality -
Available for pre-orderThe story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eatIn Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming…
Paperback | By Leah Garcés | From Beacon PressTagged as: Animals, Food, Poverty -
Available for pre-orderAn award-winning environmental science teacher’s actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom, even in the city.Join award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox in—and out of—his classroom on an excursion that goes beyond books and…
Hardcover | From Beacon PressTagged as: Education -
Available for pre-orderA bold takedown of the ways women are terrorized about fatness, and a treatise on the revolutionary power of fat fury.Anti-fatness and fat-shaming are used most often as a way to inspire fear in others about being or becoming fat….
Hardcover | From Beacon PressTagged as: Social Justice -
Available for pre-orderSpotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwideTime and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a…
Paperback | By Kristen L. Buras | From Beacon PressTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Racism, Education, Social Justice -
Available for pre-order4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great DepressionDrawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard…
Paperback | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, Depression, History, History -
Available for pre-orderThe extraordinary tale of how a Boston shoemaker became an enduring symbol for the American Revolution.A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette.George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key…
Hardcover | By Alfred F. Young | From Beacon PressTagged as: History, History -
Viktor E. Frankl and the Search for Meaning: 21 Reflections on Living Life with Purpose, A Companion
Available for pre-orderInspired by the enduring wisdom of best-selling author, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, a guided journaling companion on finding meaning in an unpredictable world.The perfect gift for soul searchers—224 pages of journaling prompts, quotes, and writing…
Hardcover | By Moira Hummel, Pam Roy | From Beacon PressTagged as: Meaning, Personal Inspiration -
Available for pre-orderAn urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions—and the next looming caseThe August 2024 Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Book Club selection.In The Court v. The…
Paperback | By Joshua A. Douglas | From Beacon PressTagged as: Democracy, Justice, Politics, Voting Rights
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