“It’s easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy…
“On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions…
“As his parents struggle to put food on the table, Azaro, a little boy living in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule…
“During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy…
“They didn’t know who they had. So begins Yusef Salaam telling his story. No one’s life is the sum of the worst things that happened to…
“From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a…
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“When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried about her husband, Cong, who remains in…
“What happens after rape? In After I Was Raped, we meet five individuals: a four-year-old girl, two Dalit women, an eight-month-old infant…
“In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to…
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“Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that…