Two Tales of Detroit: Foreclosure and Prosperity
New book by law professor Bernadette Atuahene compares the starkly different home ownership experiences of two families, one white and one Black.
The Indypendent
Eleanor J. Bader
New Book Looks at the History of Carceral Apartheid
Research reveals the ways resistance inside prisons has been suppressed, propping up an unequal and unjust social order.
When Teaching About the Past Becomes a ‘Truthcrime’
Radical educator Jesse Hagopian’s latest book looks back on past waves of classroom repression and the resistance movements that overcame ignorance and prejudice.
Sexual Violence Still a ‘Normal Feature’ of Life on College Campuses
Sociologist Nicole Bedera investigates how universities handle sexual-violence claims and how victims are impacted by efforts to seek justice.
Illustrated Book About Hunger in the US Offers New Ways of Perceiving the Poor
Anti-poverty activist and journalist Pat LaMarche spoke with people in numerous shelters and published some of their recipes.
A Group of Friends Ages Together in Novel with Climate-Crisis Motif
Although the climate crisis is a theme in this novel by Eric Puchner, the characters don’t take action to work against it.
Amid a Rising Christian Nationalism, Being Non-Religious Is a Perilous Choice for Many Americans
Church-state separation is in the crosshairs. This is making non-religious people unsafe in some regions of the United States.
Book Review: A Love Story About Lingering Pain
Two art students, a homework assignment that becomes a passionate romance and a shocking turn of events that takes decades to resolve.
Book Review: The Far Right’s 70-Year Crusade to Extinguish Public Education
Heightened efforts in recent years to paint public schools as bastions of ideological perversion, sexual permissiveness and anti-white ideology are part of a long-running campaign that is gaining momentum.
Talia Lavin’s second book provides a chilling look at the evangelical right’s steady progress in capturing the key strategic pillars of American society: Arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion.