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Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854. beacon.org
When it comes to aging with purpose and integrity and determining if growing old in cohousing is the right path, Kate Madden Yee looks to her neighbor, Louise. @oldstermag.bsky.social buff.ly/uPkvehF
The Art of Aging in Community
"We’re not all best friends here, but inherent in the cohousing model is an overall desire to seek the health of the group."
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I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...
Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs | HISTORY
When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black ve...
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When it comes to queer music memoirs, you can’t go wrong with Adele Bertei’s NO NEW YORK! 😉🏳️🌈 @qnotescarolinas.bsky.social buff.ly/dWEO9KJ
Post-Pride non-fiction reading list for 2026 - QnotesCarolinas.com
Looking for your next LGBTQ+ read? Explore memoirs, essays and biographies featured in this post-Pride 2026 non-fiction reading list.
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🗣️ Coming soon next month! @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Joseph Margulies’s CAST OUT “a compassionate rumination. . . . Readers will find this an inspiring call for greater curiosity and empathy.”
Cast Out: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration by Joseph Margulies
In this compassionate rumination, civil rights and defense attorney Margulies, author of Thanks for Everything (Now Get Out), en...
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If Emmett Till had lived, he would be just over 85 years old today.
“If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emm...
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Before her unexpected death in 2023, Judy Heumann spent 2 years working with Siân Heder to develop the biopic based on her memoir. We’ll get misty-eyed seeing Ruth Madeley play her on screen. 🥹
Inside ‘CODA’ director’s follow-up ‘Being Heumann,’ about Judy Heumann and her fight for disability rights
See EW’s first look at ‘Being Heumann,’ directed by CODA Oscar winner Sian Heder, which will open the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Comix 4 All Graphic Library Book 29 The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, A Graphic Novel by David Lester, Marcus Rediker & Paul Buhle, published by Beacon Press in paperback on June 9th, 2026, 136 pages. #reading #comics Ask your library to buy copies today! @beaconpress.bsky.social
How did a generation of women challenge artistic conventions while navigating a downtown Manhattan shaped by economic decline, creative experimentation, and evolving ideas about gender, sexuality and identity? You have read NO NEW YORK to find out! buff.ly/IDxoSDy
Adele Bertei Reclaims No Wave's Untold History in New Memoir - That Eric Alper
Adele Bertei is revisiting one of New York City’s most influential underground art movements with the release of her new memoir, ‘No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene.’…
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No country that arrested librarians and booksellers was on the right side of history. But that's what's happening in Arkansas. And this is where your whole country is headed with H.R 7661 and S 4925. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/arkansasact372
Arresting Librarians AND Booksellers in the United States
History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.
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Yesterday was @barackobama.bsky.social’s birthday, and we’re still feeling like taking a little stroll down memory lane.
The Story Behind Obama’s Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
By Mary Frances Berry and Josh Gottheimer | It’s fair to say that no one could have expected what resulted from Barack Obama’s prime-time speech at the July 2004 Democratic National Convention. Not…
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This "diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle," Judge Mehta
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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The embrace of myths is self-delusion of the most dangerous sort, and we’ve seen it throughout #America250 celebrations. James Baldwin called it decades ago. @laprogressive.bsky.social
James Baldwin and the Lies That Protect the Powerful
In Nothing Personal, Baldwin exposes how white supremacy, class hierarchy, consumerism, and manufactured division keep ordinary people from recognizing their common enemy.
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MAHA - the pro-death movement of RFK JR and Republicans. A viral collapse, intentional. Enjoy your explosive diarrhea, America. Hope it makes you feel great again and owns "the libs" and "the woke." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
CDC expands largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak to 15 states
Missouri reported a dramatic jump in cases in the past week. Six states have joined the outbreak linked to lettuce from central Mexico, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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The work of writing is human. @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social will tell you. It’s messy. It’s meaningful. And each essay in LIVING, TOGETHER is a product of engaging in this work, together(!). @literaryhub.bsky.social buff.ly/UgzprzI
Labor of Love: On Editing and the Rewards of Collaborative Effort
From July to December 2024, Adam Vitcavage and I sent 68 emails back and forth. We were collaborating on a project that was a big deal for both of us: my first book, the anthology Living, Together:…
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Requiring kindergarten children who play sports in school to get pelvic exams and genetic testing is hate, inspired against the trans community. This is not even college or professional sports where money and pro-status will be determined. This is just bigotry. www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-s...
Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure
Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...
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When Buddy Bradley moved to Harlem at 16, he wanted to be a film projectionist. A resident at his boarding house taught him tap dance. The rest is dance history.
Buddy Bradley
Buddy Bradley, born in the Jim Crow South in 1905, made his way to Harlem at age 16 where he learned to tap dance and became a chorus boy. He was sought out on Broa…
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Opinion: Conservative and religious communities that enable the spread of preventible diseases could learn a lot from the queer people they vilified during the AIDS crisis, writes Josh Ackley.
“The Declaration of Independence is a little bit different in that it is not a constitution. It’s not law, per se. But it does make these claims that go beyond the drafters.”—Robin D. G. Kelley #America250 buff.ly/q5yDQqg
“The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley
Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, who examines how Black radicals have interpreted…
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David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who co-founded the progressive youth group Leaders We Deserve, is calling for radical change in the "geriatric" Democratic Party. n.pr/4bmZYNm
Progressive youth leader David Hogg calls for change in 'geriatric' Democratic Party
David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland High School shooting who co-founded the progressive youth group Leaders We Deserve, is calling for radical change in the "geriatric" Democratic Party.
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Happy #PublicationDay, G’Ra Asim! 💞 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1, his clap back at chronic lovelessness in the post-covid era with a template for a more loving and loveable future, is “a timely manifesto on romantic love that will define a generation.”—Jerald Walker
Great piece as always, @billmckibben.bsky.social. Thank you for highlighting and sharing my analysis documenting 45 climate policy rollbacks around the world. billmckibben.substack.com/p/high-heat-...
High Heat, High Drama
Europe is starting to provide some answers about the next step in the climate fight
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Why is it that women do so much of the work while the front men are being jerks and getting undeserved attention? That was the case with the No Wave movement in NYC, too, which Adele Bertei writes about in NO NEW YORK. buff.ly/RZazDA3
New York City has the best stories. Read about them in these new books.
Seven books from 2026 with the city at their heart.
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IN THE ARMS OF MOUNTAINS weaves together these threads: @idahocole.bsky.social’s relationship with their spouse, Carol; their experience with a different way of trying to change policy when it’s hard; and the political evolution of Idaho. buff.ly/v7wFQQg
Custer County author's memoir released this week
Custer County resident Cole LeFavour’s memoir was released two days ago and the author is in the midst of a nationwide book tour.
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Another weekend, another community shattered by a gunman armed with an assault-style rifle — this time in Twin Falls, Idaho at an In-N-Out Burger, where three people were killed and seven others were wounded.
LIVING, TOGETHER unites 21 essays that aim to understand the future of housing in the US through stories of chosen family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons of communal living. Thank you, @autostraddle.bsky.social, for the shout-out! buff.ly/87EPIx9
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for July 2026
Pride may be over, but y'all know the drill: Autostraddle celebrates LGBTQ+ books all year long. And we can't do it without you.
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The screening dates for the Judy Heumann biopic, BEING HEUMANN, have finally been released! Grab your popcorn! 🍿 buff.ly/QqP09Ec
Late Disability Rights Activist Judy Heumann’s Landmark Memoir, “Being Heumann,” Coming to the Screen in New Film from “CODA” Director Siân Heder
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by the late disability rights pioneer Judith “Judy” Heumann, co-authored with Kristen Joiner and published by Beacon Press, has…
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An honor to be on @democracynow.org this morning with force-of-nature Amy Goodman to discuss my new book "The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn." www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/dav...
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation, about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicling the life and activism of the legendary histori...
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G’Ra Asim is launching his new book, 99 PROBLEMS FINDING THE 1, with a presentation, a music performance, and a book signing at High Low Literary Arts Café on September 16! Come through, St. Louis! @stlmag.bsky.social buff.ly/eRFPiKh
G’Ra Asim tackles love, identity, and culture in new book ‘99 Problems Finding the 1’
Jay-Z said he had 99 problems, but a (rather choice word for a) woman wasn’t one. St. Louis–born Washington University professor and musician G’Ra Asim has 99 problems as well—but his problems…
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