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An accurate picture of the LGBTQ rights movement’s achievements is incomplete without this surprising history of how corporate America joined the cause...
Book | By Carlos A. Ball | From Beacon PressTagged as: Diversity, LGBTQ Issues, Success -
A gender-inclusive anthology of poetry and prose that addresses the physical and psychological act of being “grabbed,” or in any way assaulted.
Book | By Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, Elisa Albo, Joyce Maynard, Anita Hill | From Beacon PressTagged as: Healing, Violence -
From a celebrated Chickasaw writer, a spiritual meditation, in prose and poetry, on our relationship to the animal world, in an illustrated gift package...
Gift | By Linda Hogan | From Beacon PressTagged as: Animals, Nature -
In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers along with her own rhythmic beginnings.
Book | By Ntozake Shange | From Beacon Press -
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality...
Book | By Lauren Michele Jackson | From Beacon PressTagged as: Identity -
A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values...
Book | By John A. Buehrens | From Beacon PressTagged as: History -
More Americans care about climate change than we think—but in order to unite around solutions, we need a bold, courageous new narrative about creating a sustainable world focused on a brighter tomorrow.
Book | By Andreas Karelas | From Beacon PressTagged as: Climate Change, Climate Justice, Climate Justice, Community, Nature, Politics -
A revised edition of the renowned interfaith activist's story of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism. With a new afterword...
Book | By Eboo Patel | From Beacon PressTagged as: America, Faith, Islam, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism, Religion, Religious Pluralism -
Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want.
Book | By S. Craig Watkins | From Beacon PressTagged as: Creativity, Economy, Success, Work -
A noted biblical scholar explores how the claim of divine choice has been used from ancient times to the present to justify territorial expansion and prejudice...
Book | By Michael Coogan | From Beacon PressTagged as: History, Oppression, Religion