Civil Rights & Liberties

Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....

What is Project 2025, exactly? Who wrote it, what does it actually say, and what does it mean for everyday Americans, across the political spectrum, in the years to come?

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project....

Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

A searing and ultimately hopeful account of Calvin Duncan and his thirty-year path through Angola after a wrongful murder conviction, his coming-of-age as a legal mind while imprisoned, and his continued advocacy for those on the inside

A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world....

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all....

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House....

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface....

The National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.

Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....

From a young Harvard and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall....

Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have repeatedly won the day....

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide....

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee....

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

In Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Dr. Carl L. Hart draws on decades of research and his own personal experience to argue definitively that the criminalization and demonization of drug use - not drugs themselves - have been a tremendous scourge on America....

Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times best seller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism....

The Color of Compromise takes listeners on a historical journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today's Black Lives Matter movement....

The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits. They try to erase Black history, prioritize white victimhood, deny Black oppression, promote myths of Black inferiority, or rebrand racism as something else entirely....

Jonathan Turley takes a timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others....

Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel....

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....

Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn’t commit. The victim of a wildly incompetent public defense system and a badly compromised witness, Duncan was left to rot in the waking nightmare of confinement. Armed with little education, he took matters into his own hands. At twenty-one, he filed his first motion from prison: “Motion for a Law Book,” which launched his highly successful, self-taught, legal career. Trapped within this wholly corrupted system, Calvin became a legal advocate for himself and his fellow prisoners as an Inmate Counsel.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is at a crossroads. Traditional African/Black American cultures present the crossroads as a place of simultaneous difficulty and possibility. In contemporary times, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the phrase “intersectionality” to explain the unique position of Black women in America. In many ways, they are at a third crossroads: attempting to fit into notions of femininity and respectability primarily assigned to White women, while inventing improvisational strategies to combat oppression.

In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, nicknamed the “Johns Committee.” His crime? Being a suspected homosexual. And the government of Florida would use any tactic at their disposal—legal or not—to get Copleston to admit it.

George Soros is not a shadow, a puppet master, or the overlord your uncle’s Facebook feed warned you about. He’s a billionaire with convictions, a resume, and a target on his back. In this scorched-earth autopsy of right-wing fear tactics, George Soros: The Phantom Menace of the Far Right dissects how one old man with a wallet and a worldview got turned into the ultimate political boogeyman. This book doesn’t fawn. It doesn’t flatter. It drags every conspiracy into the light and forces it to stand on its own legs—most collapse immediately. From Nazi lies to QAnon fever dreams, ...

Debunking the Myth of Meritocracy Through Systemic Privilege, Exploitation, and Public Subsidies They call it the American Dream. We call it a rigged game. Ever wonder how billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos amass unimaginable wealth while paying less taxes than teachers or nurses? This explosive exposé cracks open the myth of the “self-made” billionaire to reveal the truth: a system engineered to funnel power and profit to the ultra-rich. - Tax Code Scams: Unrealized gains, offshore havens, and “buy-borrow-die” schemes let billionaires pay as little as 1% in taxes—while ...