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Social Justice and the Law Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

The visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality has drawn attention to a deeper conversation.

Radical Theory and Practice Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

What does it mean to resist?

Worker Power Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

COVID-19 has thrown the fragile state of American labor into sharp relief, as the Trump administration scrambles to further dismantle . . .

Antiracist Education Gift Guide
By: emily
November 19, 2020

Education is where capitalism, racism, and policing intersect, resulting in what we know as the “school to prison pipeline.” These . . .

Criminal (In)Justice Gift Guide 2020
By: emily
November 18, 2020

This summer the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and many more Black people at the hands of the police sparked . . .

Fearless Books for a Perilous Year: The New Press 2020 Gift Guide
By: emily
November 18, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close many of us are weary and frightened, but hopeful.

Read an Excerpt from Waste
By: Derek
November 17, 2020

Waste, activist Catherine Coleman Flowers's new memoir traces her evolution from . . .

Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers
By: Derek
November 17, 2020

2020 MacArthur Fellow Catherine Coleman Flowers's work fighting for basic sanitation addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time—public . . .

Abandoned by Anne Kim Awarded the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
By: Derek
October 30, 2020

Anne Kim's Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection has won the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize . . .

Author Events Replay: August & September 2020
By: Derek
October 23, 2020

We might not be able meet in the real world, but online events have been able to bring more of us together and have provided an opportunity for . . .

Author Spotlight: A Conversation with Andrew Gumbel
By: Derek
October 14, 2020

A college education has long been touted as a path to success, but earning a degree and navigating the bureaucracy of the institutions that grant . . .

Champions of Literacy, an online event with Literacy Partners
By: Derek
October 13, 2020

Literacy Partners, an adult education non-profit based in New York City with programs across the country, is hosting a series of online events . . .

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