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“Award-winning historian, professor, and journalist Tao Leigh Goffe, launches an investigation of the Caribbean as the seat of corrupt Western wealth and environmental…
“In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times--class division, political fissures, gender…
“Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the 20th century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total…
“Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S.…
“Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. Most famously, he won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. A…
“Born in Pedamaddali village of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh in 1939, K. Madhava Rao did his early schooling in a village school, Degree course in Hindu College, Masulipatnam…
“Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to…
“A deeply personal story about growing up Black and queer in the U.S. In his characteristically powerful voice, Duncan recounts hitchhiking across the country, spending time in…
“Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip-hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who wandered the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who…
“When first-generation Muslim-American Fatema Z. Sumar was given the chance to serve and lead across the U.S. government, she seized it. Traveling more than three-quarters of a…