The Evolution of Black Bookstores
21st century Black booksellers bring activism and business together in a way that skirts the debates of their predecessors; to them, the work is all of a piece.
The Indypendent
Books
“Apple & Palm” Tells Appalachia’s Stories With Tenderness
A wide range of emotional responses form the crux of the stories in “Apple & Palm” and Henley’s writing is somehow both spare and detailed.
“The Coroner’s Silence” and Law Enforcement’s Cover-Up of Police Violence
“The Coroner’s Silence” is an important addition to our understanding of how law enforcement contributes to and justifies the abuse and neglect of those deemed unworthy of equal treatment, respect, and care.
Book Review: “Black Power, White Heat”
Echols delves into the ways that people of different races have collaborated throughout history, and homes in on cross-racial organizing during the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 70s.
It’s A Wonderful Life: Karen Malpede’s “Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths”
A raw and rare voice: Karen Malpede, author of “Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths.”
Book Review: From the Flag to the Cross
“Is it fascism?” isn’t what we need to know, we need to know how to fight it.
“The Fine Line Between Horror, Hope” for Migrant Families in ‘Now We are Here’
Gabrielle Oliveira follows the lives of 12 immigrant families as they navigate life under Trump’s family separation policies, the pandemic, and assimilation into the United States.
New Book Unpacks How Zionism is Mythologized in Hasbara
Malinowitz’s “Selling Israel” provides both the hard facts and historical background necessary to contest Zionism as the best and only way to combat hatred of Jews.
Book Excerpt: Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933-1945 by Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace concludes his trilogy of New York City history with a chronicle of the American anti-fascist movement’s beginnings in NYC.
A Queer Life Well Lived in ‘Terry Dactyl’
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s evocative novel follows a trans woman from her chaotic but loving upbringing in
Seattle to the AIDS/HIV epidemic in New York City to COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement.