Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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The following is an excerpt from Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King, Jr.. Beacon Press is giving away copies of this book as part of our Black History Month giveaway on Facebook. On December 1, 1955, an attractive Negro seamstress, Mrs. Rosa Parks, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery.…
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Current Beacon contests and links to good reading.
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Video of Jonathan Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis, talking about the history of schizophrenia and how its diagnosis became increasingly tied to race.
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An excerpt from Geoffrey Canada’s memoir, Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America
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Become a fan of Beacon Press on Facebook, and enter to win a free book.
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If you get arrested and post bail you’re released from custody… but what if you don’t have the money?
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The following is an excerpt from Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors by Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund. Edelman was a student of the late Howard Zinn at Spelman College. Photo by Roslyn Zinn HOWARD ZINN The tall, lanky professor and I arrived at Spelman College together in 1956. He…
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In an excerpt from The Protest Psychosis, Jonathan Metzl discusses the process of finding “disembodied voices that told silent stories of what it meant to be incarcerated, or neglected, or entrenched, or immured.”
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A look at recent media featuring Beacon Press authors and books.
