Activism

In the late 1960s and early 70s, the Black Panther Party was a major political force. The party's Kansas City,…

On April 25th, 1974, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) of dissident Portuguese Army officers led a military coup,…

In Chicago in 1969, Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party founded the original Rainbow Coalition, an anti-racist,…

A protest movement spread across Japan in 1918 in response to inflated costs of rice. On top of existing inflation, the…

For decades, residents of the Logan Heights community in San Diego fought to get a park in their neighborhood. Instead,…

Ni Una Menos is a women's empowerment movement that began in Argentina and spread across Latin America. Comparable…

This is a classic for good reason. The US history book you wish you'd had as a textbook in college, or high school,…

A collection of speeches made from around the world at strikes and rallies that remind us, no matter how big or small,…

Is biology destiny? Why is the personal political? Is pornography anti-feminist? The term "feminism" came into…

Are humans really selfish and greedy, or generous and kind? Does anyone have the right to tell you what "good"…

In 2018 the concepts of gender & sexuality have changed drastically from their past black/white meanings. As people…

This is the first volume of MARCH, the trilogy of graphic novels about the civil rights movement from the perspective of…

The term Zami comes from the Carriacou word to describe women working together as friends, lovers, and companions. In…

When segregation was still the norm, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white rider, igniting the…

Profiles of girls from all over the globe (and all over history) who took brave risks and changed the world while still…

Since its invention, the bicycle has been a symbol of independence and freedom. However, for many women the struggle to…

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious was…

As a great athlete faced with great prejudices, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to join a major-league…

This is THE book on race we've been waiting for. Ijeoma Oluo turns her wise and brilliant brain to the task of…

This ABC of witchcraft offers 26 options for tearing down the patriarchy with potions, spells, elixers and other…

Racism (and specifically anti-blackness) is not an accident of U.S. history; it was designed to be an integral part…

 A round of interconnected fables that drive from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century…

Transform your place in society from plastic polluter to plastic patroller, with Lonely Planet's Plastic…

Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa went on to become a civil…

As a child, Emmeline Pankhurst was inspired by books about heroes who fought for others. She dedicated her life to…

Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a…

In 1989, Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement), formed to protest the damming of the Narmada River, which…

In the early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons used guerrilla warfare to defeat the British from the mountains…

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer."It is the…