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May 05

It's Keith Haring's birthday today! In celebration and remembrance, here's an excerpt from Clayton Patterson's Resistance, a radical social and political history of the Lower East Side. The excerpt below is quoted from an interview between Resistance contributor James Cornwell and Leonard Abrams, the publisher of the now defunct East Village Eye, about the East Village's now-you-see-it-now-you-don't 1980s gallery scene.

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December 08

Harriet Hyman Alonso, author of Martha and the Slave Catchers, a book for middle school readers, speaks with Catherine A. Franklin an education professor who created the Martha and the Slave Catchers curriculum guide. They discuss some of the aspects of Martha and the Slave Catchers that relate to history and teaching, William Llyod Garrison's unruly but ethical children, and some questions for today, including: "Who are the modern abolitionists?" and "How do we resist unfair laws?"

November 09

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. . . . This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.”

—Frederick Douglass

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The Price of the Ticket

by Kia Corthron

Originally published in the July/August 2016 issue of The Dramatist

Three years ago I was standing in the lobby of a theater, the typical Broadway cluster-mob awaiting entrance, with more than half the horde African-American. This would be logical, as the show was the musical revue After Midnight, a refurbishing of a prior concert piece entitled Cotton Club Parade celebrating Ellington-era jazz and dance. Inside, my sister and I were led to our orchestra seats, and I looked around: not another black face in sight. It took me a moment to realize that The Mystery of the Vanishing Black Folks likely would have been quickly resolved had we moved up to the balconies. But from where I sat, observing the complexion of the performers versus that of the onlookers, it was the Cotton Club, the Colors entertaining the Caucasians, and that the upper tiers may have been filled with black faces was not exactly comforting, an economically induced throwback to Jim Crow segregation with African Americans relegated to the peanut gallery.

December 02



The death of Fidel Castro has occasioned mourning, celebration, a New York Times obituary sixty-seven years in the making, and appraisals of El Comandante’s political work from all across the globe.

Castro is man about whom it’s impossible to be objective. There’s no denying that the Times obituary, for instance, is measured and thoughtful, and yet a cold eye can detect The Gray Lady tipping her hand at times.

December 07
Drumroll please! The winner of the Center for Fiction’s 2016 First Novel Prize is . . . . . . .
December 20



by Derrick Jensen

When I find myself in times of trouble, I’m less interested in Mother Mary’s wisdom than I am in Joe Hill’s: Don’t mourn; organize.

There’s a sense in which Trump’s election is a surprise, similar to how we somehow seem to be continually surprised when easily predictable negative consequences of this way of life come to pass. So we’re surprised when bathing the world in insecticides somehow causes crashes in insect populations, when covering the world in endocrine disrupters somehow leads to the disruption of endocrine systems

January 11



We mourn the death of our friend and author Nat Hentoff, a great man, deeply principled, intolerant of intolerance.

January 17



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“The course of history does bend toward justice,
but it must be gripped hard by those who seek it.”
- Justin Sayre

In a few days, our great nation will officially put a man into office. We all know who that man is, and his name strikes great chords of fear and confusion within our democracy. But it is not his name we fear, it’s what he represents.

February 27



Everyone’s got a different way of coping with the Trump presidency. Some resist, some make fun on the internets, some prefer to hide under the...

June 21

What supposedly thorny journalistic questions could be simply settled by honest, unbiased inquiry? Noam Chomsky asked that very question in 2002, in his speech "The Journalist from Mars," included in the second edition of Media Control: The Spectacular Achievments of PropagandaLet's say an idealistic journalist came down from Mars, with none of the prejudices used by intellectual elites to buttress up power. What would that Martian make of global affairs and the way they're reported? How would our Martian friend report on terrorist acts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, the U.S., and elsewhere? Chomsky does his best Martian impression and informs us below.

July 11

In a sense we need to take the wind out of the sails of fake news and rhetorical hyperbole by charting a practical course toward social democratic/democratic socialist policies on health, education, immigration, environment, economy, labor, social justice and foreign policy.

April09
Abdellah Taïa will read from his latest work and discuss the role of storytelling and journalism in cultural resistance movements.
New York, NY
6.30pm
The Center for the Humanities
March19

Kia Corthron (Moon and the Mars) and Kim Thúy (Em) examine the pressures...

Charlottesville, VA
10.00am
Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Central Branch, Charlottesville, VA
September22

Join us for two events with Paco Ignacio Taibo II at the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Born in...

Brooklyn, NY
May18
Kia Corthron reads from 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
Brooklyn, NY
7.30pm
Pete's Candy Store
September17
Writers Jeffery Renard Allen ("Song of the Shank"), Kia Corthron ("The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter"), and Min Jin Lee ("Pachinko") discuss the challenges they faced when offering a new perspective on specific historical moment. Moderated by Isaac Fitzg
Brooklyn, NY
11.00am
Brooklyn Historical Society Library
June07
Book launch for "The Instinct for Cooperation"
Santa Fe, New Mexico
6.30pm
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
June21
Jeff Wilson discusses The Instinct for Cooperation.
Baltimore, MD
6.30pm
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse
April09

We celebrate the 25th anniversary of Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies, a...

New York, NY
Strand Book Store
April24

Author and librarian Hal Schrieve presents hir debut novel OUT OF SALEM, a darkly-humored...

Beaverton, Oregon
7.00pm
Powell's Books
April27

✨ Join us LIVE! on Instagram @KeepAbortionSafe ✨

With a conservative leaning Supreme...

United States
7.30pm
Instagram Live (@KeepAbortionSafe)
May03

Join Seven Stories and Haymarket Books for a launch of Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s important new...

Online, Internet!
6.00pm
Zoom / Live Stream
May14

Writers’ power to expose inequalities, mobilize collective resistance, and share unorthodox...

New York, NY
12.00pm
PEN Word Voices Festival
November19

From his first arrest in the Civil Rights era to his most recent during a climate justice march...

Baltimore, MD
7.00pm
Red Emmas
February27
Boswell is pleased to host an event with George Lakey, Quaker activist and author of Dancing with History: A Life for Peace and Justice.
Milwaukee, WI
6.30pm