Collection: Movements

Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.   The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art...

An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar—the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to...

A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politicsIn We Live for the We,...

Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim,...

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions...

Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. “Cancel” or “call-out” culture is a source of much tension and...

Fumbling Towards Repair is a workbook by Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan that includes reflection questions, skill assessments, facilitation tips, helpful definitions, activities, and hard-learned lessons...

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in...

Ida B. Wells was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing...

In this personal, moving essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a...

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage....

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law (foreward by Michelle Alexander) A crucial indictment of...

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter   In 2013, Alicia Garza...

With a foreword by Speaker Nancy Pelosi Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying “We’re better than this.” He said it in Baltimore, a...

A Field Guide to Black Resistance edited by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin — This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons...

Aperture: The Magazine of Photography and Ideas This issue features two covers:Richard Avedon, Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, with his father, Martin Luther King,...

On December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She described how the police pulled her...

  A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.Drawing on Black...

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." — Combahee River Collective Statement Winner of the 2018 Lambda...

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne,...

Patrisse Khan-Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience with photos and journal entries!A movement...

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic packageTracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous...

An award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind is one of our most important records of the American Civil Rights Movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel...

"This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when...