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A is for Angela Davis; iconic political activist. B is for Billie Jean King, who shattered the glass ceiling of sports;…

Anyone familiar with Charles Bukowski's work will understand that his writing guide is anything but simple. This book is…

The role of news media has evolved more recently increasingly to profit the few, rather than to empower the many.…

One of the most notable singer/songwriters in history has selected what he believes to be his most important and…

While we may not like it, Americans have a more committed relationship to their guns than they do to their marriages. If…

This memoir is gripping tale of survival and hope. When Thomas decides to transition from female-to-male, he begins by…

In Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or…

These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even…

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book…

Previously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th-century American master. "The uncollected gutbucket ramblings of the…

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or…

Is any poem more infamous, or long, or definitive of its era than this epic yawp by Allen Ginsburg? Published in 1956 at…

Award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners…

A wake up call for white Americans to recognize their privilege in society and to address the fact that while America…