Civil Rights & Liberties

Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....

Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100...

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting...

This program is read by multiple-award-winning narrator JD Jackson. #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the civil rights movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around...

Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in...

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. “Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon...

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards. "Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic...

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism...

Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilization upon encountering the savage, uncultured, or primitive.

lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom....

From the founder of Latina Rebels, a rallying cry for women of color that gives them the keys for their own liberation “Mojica Rodríguez’s electrifying debut channels mesmeric prose to heal the wounds of white supremacy.” —Los Angeles Times For generations, Brown girls have had to push...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, news...

A “timely and brilliant original” (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The United...

A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that listeners of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide....

A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised...

A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is...

John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded antigun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten Americans into giving up their guns....

How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communication an effective means of predicting and preventing future attacks? These are some of the questions at the heart of Patrick Radden Keefe’s brilliant new book, Chatter. In the late 1990s, when...

Published to coincide with the ACLU's centennial, a major book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling author....

In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience...

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days. The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in...

From the moment of its publication in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws proved to be a controversial work provoking widespread interest. Within three years it had been translated into various European languages - and was swiftly added to the List of Prohibited Books by the Roman Catholic Church. It...

A USA TODAY Bestseller! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Public Library “Duncan’s story is so incredible it strains belief. It is so heartwarming and hopeful that it will stay with you for a long time.” —John Grisham "This brilliantly told story—at once maddening and...

Abbie Hoffman Explained: Yippies, Counterculture Revolution, Antiwar Activism, Media Theater, Radical Politics, Civil Disobedience, and the Fight Against Establishment Power Step into the electrifying world of one of the most controversial and creative activists in modern American history. Abbie Hoffman Explained explores the life, ideas, and lasting influence of the man who helped redefine protest during the turbulent 1960s and beyond. From the founding of the Yippies to the unforgettable spectacle of the Chicago Seven trial, this book reveals how Hoffman turned activism into performance ...

In a world grappling with police brutality, corruption, and lost trust, this book by Dr Charles Omole stands as a beacon of hope and action. Drawing on global crises—from the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria to George Floyd's death in the U.S.—this comprehensive guide synthesises universal principles for transforming law enforcement into accountable, effective, and trusted institutions. Omole, a distinguished scholar, explores the principles of democratic policing, emphasising legality, human rights, and community trust. He addresses accountability through oversight and transparency, ...

What if racism isn’t always loud… but still just as damaging? Letter to America: Racism is a direct, unfiltered reflection on one of the most misunderstood and often minimized issues in modern society. Written by a U.S. Navy Veteran, this powerful letter challenges the idea that racism must be aggressive to be real and exposes the uncomfortable truth about “polite” bias, silent assumptions, and everyday behaviors that continue to divide us. Inside this letter, you’ll discover: Why racism is not limited to any one race, culture, or group The dangerous myth of “harmless” or “...

En 1948, la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos se presentó como una Carta Magna global: un escudo secular forjado tras el Holocausto para proteger al individuo del Estado depredador. Hoy en día, sigue siendo el documento más traducido que existe. Sin embargo, tres generaciones después, Bernd Riemann sostiene que este texto fundacional no es una promesa fallida, sino un espejismo procesal magistralmente diseñado. El fracaso moral más traducido de la historia humana presenta una auditoría quirúrgica de los treinta artículos de la Declaración, comparando la retórica utópica...

In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was marketed as a global Magna Carta—a secular shield forged in the wake of the Holocaust to protect the individual from the predator state. Today, it remains the most translated document in existence. Yet, three generations later, Bernd Riemann argues that this foundational text is not a failed promise, but a masterfully designed procedural mirage. In this provocative and data-driven deconstruction, Riemann performs a surgical audit of all thirty articles of the declaration, comparing the utopian rhetoric of the post-war era with ...