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Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women's rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson was a proponent of direct action.

How did a young girl who rose from underprivileged circumstances in post-war Singapore become a trailblazer of women’s global leadership at the United Nations? Noeleen Heyzer was the first woman from outside North America to be appointed as Executive Director of the United Nations Development...

Millions of Christians know Tony Campolo as a popular speaker, best-selling author, parachurch leader, pastor, and counselor to a US president. But few know his personal faith journey—how throughout his life, existential encounters and unexplored ideas compelled him to continually reexamine and reform his theology.

Inspirada observadora y apasionada de la historia, Solnit es una de las críticas culturales más creativas, penetrantes y elocuentes que escriben hoy en día. En Esperanza en la oscuridad, su crítica más personal hasta la fecha, reflexiona sobre los logros cruciales, a menudo subestimados, de los activistas de base.

A raw, heartfelt memoir “full of reflection” (Vanity Fair), perseverance, redemption, and triumph from Tamika D. Mallory, trailblazing social justice leader, activist, and cofounder of the Women’s March. In I Lived to Tell the Story, Tamika Mallory takes us beyond the headlines and podiums...

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?

It's an autobiographical work by the well-known social worker and Magsaysay award winner Prakash Amte. It talks about his struggles in helping the tribals of central and western India, move towards their up-liftment. Prakash Amte is the famous social activist and Gandhi ji's humble disciple, late Baba Amte's son.

From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, this urgent and exhilarating memoir-manifesto-handbook provides bold, practical new ways to transform conflicts into connections, even with those we’re tempted to walk away from. In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother in...

A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics—from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized...

United States, early 1800’s. On a Maryland plantation, a young child is cruelly separated from his mother, setting the stage for the dehumanizing conditions of slavery that would define his early life. The brutal attempts to break Douglass's spirit only serve to strengthen his resolve to escape from that life. Despite the obstacles, the young boy is determined to educate himself, and he secretly learns to read and write.

10 women social reformers who fought to bring change in India

On a March night in 2000, two deputy sheriffs serving a warrant were shot in Atlanta, Georgia. One was severely wounded while the other would die a day later. The shooting kicked off a large manhunt in search of the alleged cop killer. Four days later in Alabama, authorities found their man—Jamil Al-Amin. He was a Muslim leader with the title of Imam in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. He was also the man formerly known as H. Rap Brown. He was a charismatic Black radical in the late '60s.

தேசத்தந்தையாக விளங்கிய காந்தியின் அடியொற்றி சுதந்திர வேள்வியில் தன்னை அர்ப்பணித்துக்கொண்ட இரு இளைஞர்கள் - ஜவஹர்லால் நேருவும் சுபாஷ் சந்திர போஸும். இருவருக்குமே காந்தியிடம் கருத்து வேறுபாடுகள் இருந்த போதும், மக்கள் செல்வாக்கு எனும் கனி காந்தியிடம் தான் உள்ளது என்பதை உணர்ந்த நேரு அஹிம்சையை, ஒத்துழையாமையை ஆதரித்தார், சுதந்திர இந்தியாவின் முதல் பிரதமராகத் திகழ்ந்தார்.

When a thoughtless tweet by Zelda la Grange unleashed a storm, she was asked: ‘Have you learnt nothing from Nelson Mandela?’ This book is her answer. Here she draws out his lessons on humility, respect, honesty, how to truly listen and what to do if you realise you have made a grave mistake, a lesson she herself had to learn the hard way.

Stephen Kakfwi was born in a bush camp on the edge of the Arctic Circle in 1950. In a family torn apart by tuberculosis, alcohol, and the traumas endured by generations in residential school, he emerged as a respected Dene elder and eventually the Premier of the Northwest Territories. Kakfwi, schooled on civil rights and 1960s protest songs, dedicated himself to supporting chiefs in their claim to land that had been taken away from them and in their determination to seize control of the colonial political system.

Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the loudest and most charismatic victors, but are silent about the true movers and shakers: the rebels, the honest servants, the quiet doers, the square pegs in a round hole, and the ordinary believers who kept showing up.Through...

కేవలం పాతిక సంవత్సరాలు మాత్రమే జీవించి, ఎప్పుడో నలబై ఏడేళ్ల క్రితమే హత్యకు గురైన జార్జి రెడ్డి పేరు వినగానే ఒక పోరాట స్పూర్తి, ఉద్వేగం గుండెల్లో వెల్లివిరుస్తాయి. ఉస్మానియా కేంద్రంగా జార్జి, అతని స్నేహితులు సాగించిన పోరాటం తెలుగునాట విప్లవ ప్రజాస్వామిక ఉద్యమాలకు కొత్త ఊపిరులూదింది. సునిశితమైన మేధ, సమాజాన్ని మార్చాలన్న తపన, ఆర్ధ్రమైన హృదయం, అంతులేని సాహసం వీటన్నింటి కలబోత అయిన జార్జి రెడ్డి విలక్షణ వ్యక్తిత్వాన్ని పాఠకుల ముందు ఆవిష్కరించే ప్రయత్నమే ఈ పుస్తకం.

எந்த ஒரு அநியாயத்திற்கும், அக்கிரமத்திற்கும் எல்லை உண்டு. இந்த சமுதாயத்தில் நடக்கும் சில அநீதிகளை நாம் கண்டும் காணாமலும் கடந்து போய்க்கொண்டு இருக்கிறோம். நம்மில் 90% பேர் அப்படித்தான் இருக்கிறார்கள். வெகு அரிதாக உள்ள 10% பேர் மட்டுமே துணிச்சலோடு முன்வந்து குரல் கொடுக்கிறார்கள். அந்த 10% பேரில் உள்ள ஒரு நான்கு பேரின் கதைதான் இந்த கோடு தாண்டாதே.

From a vivid portrait of her childhood in 1960s Detroit to her leadership of one of the world’s largest philanthropic institutions, La June shares her full-circle, American story—a coming-of-age journey where she gains a firsthand understanding of how systemic racism prevents our children and communities from thriving and learns about the transformative role healing can play in helping all of us transcend the legacy of racial inequity.

"«لم يُخلَق الإنسان ليعيش على اللحم، بل على الجذور والثمار». يُقدم لنا المهاتما غاندي تجاربه الشخصية، التي خاضها كي ينعم بصفاءِ الروح الممزوج براحة الجسد. ويؤكد...