With its detailed discussions and tips, "Becoming Unruly" is an educational self-help and leadership guide that facilitates change. LaRoyce Batchelor’s self-improvement book "Becoming Unruly" includes thought-provoking prompts and... Read More

California’s history of racist legislation against Black Americans is brought to light in Lynn M. Hudson’s "West of Jim Crow". Attracted by the promise of economic opportunity and freedom from enslavement and Jim Crow, Black... Read More

"The Opportunity Agenda" is a practical, persuasive blueprint for refocusing the Democratic Party to serve the concrete needs of the people. NYC real estate executive and social advocate Winston Fisher and former Kansas City mayor Sly... Read More

Nostalgia-fueled interest in retro music and contemporary artists’ expressions of “black resistance, joy, and togetherness” are at the heart of today’s soul music revival, and Emily J. Lordi’s nuanced revisionist history "The... Read More

The surprising trajectory of the shared economy is laid bare in Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig. Out of the 2008 financial collapse and into a world of unfulfilling work on the dreaded nine-to-five schedule stepped a new idea, full of... Read More

Informative and entertaining, Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is an illuminating memoir about time spent volunteering in Ghana. Christine Brown’s memoir Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is about volunteering in a West African farming... Read More

Examining the causes and costs of dwindling jury trials in federal courts, "The Vanishing Trial" is a compelling glimpse behind the curtain of the courtroom. Brimming with courtroom drama and sobering statistics, Robert Katzberg’s "The... Read More

"Life"’s idealism about growing and aging is meaningfully tempered as it considers the realities of racism. Floyd L. Griffin Jr.’s engaging social science book "Life" considers the impact of race in America through the lens of human... Read More