Journalism as Activism

"John Brennan" (Madame Sidney Gifford Czira) was a woman of the twentieth century, and along with her five sisters, the Giffords, she contributed t...

Reducere. A Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall of...

Reducere. During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest create...

Reducere. Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation (1911) is a novel by J. E. Casely Hayford. Published at the height of his career as a politician, jo...

Reducere. Chapter 1: Introduction: A framework for communicating social change.- Chapter 2: Development, Dominance, and Communication.- Chapter 3: Marxist So...

Reducere. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of thei...

Reducere. The Forgotten Botanist is the account of an extraordinary woman who, in 1870, was driven by ill health to leave the East Coast for a new life in th...

Reducere. Journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Mimi Rosen is back with her fatherMax for another action-packed tale of murder and intrigue in NewYork City's Diam...

Reducere. Finalist for the Lukas prize With a New Foreword After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you se...

Reducere. "How I Became a Socialist" is a 1903 essay by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American journalist, novelist, and soci...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journal...

Reducere. By any measure, Dorothy Day lived a fascinating life. She was a journalist, activist, single mother, convert, Catholic laywoman, and co-founder of ...

Reducere. Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a...

Reducere. Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. She famously won the devotion of one of the grea...

Reducere. Karl Marx: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and works. Marx was a philosopher, a crusading journalist, as wel...

A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Mu...

Reducere. In Epic Athletes: Simone Biles, celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel scores a perfect ten with this uplifting young reader's biography of gold m...

Reducere. Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journali...

Reducere. In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.To...

Reducere. Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-mak...

Reducere. Ida B. Wells exposes a series of racially-motivated acts that disproportionately affect African Americans and is overwhelmingly ignored by a majori...

Reducere. Award-winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive tr...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you se...

Reducere. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet....

Reducere. This fictional autobiography concerns a female activist for peace and human rights; through the form of biography, peace activist Bertha von Suttne...

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of "The Call of the Wild" (1903), a short novel written by Jack London. Jack London (1876-191...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with i...

Reducere. In Epic Athletes: Simone Biles, celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel scores a perfect ten with this uplifting young reader's biography of gold m...

Reducere. Jewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893-1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is...

Reducere. The year is 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man) when Anthony Meredith, a scholar from the future, comes across an important manuscript o...

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist ...

Description"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one...

A founding text of transnational feminism For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the la...

Joe Bronson is bored with school. Worse yet, his father is threatening to send him to a military academy. When Joe skips classes to take the ferry ...

Reducere. The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in ninete...

DescriptionIn 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared "Gay rights are human ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis classic of American literature, a dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave, was first published in 1845, when ...

DescriptionNever before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, whe...

DescriptionIn the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the...

Reducere. Florida Book AwardShe Sang Promise is the compelling and inspiring story of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, one of modern America's first female elected tr...

Reducere. The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into...

A multifaceted career-spanning collection from famed activist and journalist David Harris David Harris is a reporter, a clear-eyed idealist, an Ame...

Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystem...

Reducere. The Call of the Wild is a world-famous animal story, widely considered to be Jack London's greatest work. When Californian family dog Buck is kidna...

Reducere. Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast, " gang membe...

Reducere. Educating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge-also known as civics education-has been in d...

Reducere. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million peop...

When Hiss ne Habr , deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as a watershed for human rights...

Reducere. When this novel was first published in 1906, Jack London was well on his way to becoming one of the most popular writers in the world. A spellbindi...

DescriptionAn ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for T...

Dr. Archibald Coo, an erudite big-city pigeon, is tired of the way people treat him and the other pigeons. They're always being shooed and swatted,...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. History. Politics. Irish Studies. Foreword by Ed Maloney. GOOD FRIDAY is a compilation of articles written by Anthony McIntyre...

DescriptionThis semiautobiographical account of an early twentieth century activist recounts growing up in rural poverty in farming settlements and...

Reducere. Published for the first time in its century, this "meticulously edited contribution to the study of American women's diaries and late-19th-century ...

In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post. As the journalist known as Poll...

Reducere. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -...

Reducere. Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public fig...

Reducere. DescriptionOriginally published in 1938, this classic by Brenda Ueland is considered by many to be one of the best books ever written on how to be ...

DescriptionA foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indig...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Denise GiardinaRachel's daughter, Jackie, carries Dillon's activism and passion into the next generation. As Dillon fought,...

Reducere. Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning...

Contributor(s): Author: Jack LondonThe King of Mazy May is a short story by Jack London. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, Ja...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bernard Coard"A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ " (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BaconIn this landmark work of photo-journalism, activist and photographer David Bacon documents the experiences of so...

Reducere. A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can--and do--make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the w...

Reducere. As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for mo...

Reducere. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle -...

Renowned author, scholar, activist, and journalist, Dr. Phyllis Chesler has been an independent and politically incorrect truth teller for nearly h...