Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy . . .

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, author of Liberating Minds: The Case for College in Prison, will be at the . . .

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, author of Birth of a Dream Weaver, will be at UCLA's Hammer Musuem for a reading and . . .

Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women . . .

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right . . .

The Oakland Book Festival is a one-day, annual literary event.

Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow) will be in conversation with Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life, and author of Becoming . . .

Damon Krukowski, author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, will be in . . .

Damon Krukowski will be discussing and signing copies of his new book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in . . .

Keynote addresses by Tressie McMillan Cottom, Jane McAlevey, Frances Fox Piven and . . .

Founding member of Galaxie 500 and one half of the folk-rock duo Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, will be discussing his new . . .

During the Presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the U.S., surveillance of mosques, and a database for . . .