In the powerful, myth-shattering book King of the North, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jeanne Theoharis argues that Martin Luther King Jr.'s time outside of the South was at the heart of his campaign for racial justice. In this bold retelling, King emerges as a figure who not only led a revolutionary movement, but engaged in nationwide struggles to fight against racism, poverty, and war alongside his intellectual and political guide, Coretta Scott King.

In Bad Law, Elie Mystal, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to a brilliant takedown of ten of the worst laws shaping American life and causing misery to millions—from gun manufacturer immunity to attacks on reproductive rights.

Read an excerpt from The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War by Jeff Forret, recipient of the Frederick Douglass Prize.

Read an excerpt from The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts by renowned death penalty lawyer Stephen B. Bright and legal scholar James Kwak.

Read an excerpt from Won't Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System by award-winning journalist Andrew Gumbel.

Read an excerpt from Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor by veteran journalist Anne Kim. A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.