Political Activism

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatjes Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africas most talented early 20th-century black le...

From Reagans regular invocation of America as a city on a hill to Obamas use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric ...

Despite tremendous sentiment against the American-led occupations, citizens and soldiers continue to die. Award-winning journalist Jamail shows a n...

On the coast of Washington and British Columbia sit the misty forests and towering mountains of Cascadia. With archipelagos surrounding its shores ...

Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the ...

While people used to conceal the fact that they were gay or lesbian to protect themselves from stigma and discrimination, it is now commonplace for...

Assembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheidExplores the history of how the future in Sout...

A great read.Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminat...

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democ...

The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in 1846Frederick Douglass (181895) was not the only fugitive from American sla...

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glit...

In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Cote d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically m...

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error...

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate ...