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Beacon’s Bestsellers and Highlights of 2016

December 28, 2016

It’s December, which means it’s time for our holiday sale! All this month, get 30% off every purchase on our website using code HOLIDAY30. This year, we’re donating 20% of all sales in December to the Water Protector Legal Collective, which provides legal support for water protection activities in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now, more than ever, these are titles will be timely and necessary as we transition to the new administration. Looking for a title, but don’t know where to begin? Get started with this list we put together of our bestsellers and highlights of 2016. Happy book hunting and Happy New Year! Read more →

Posted at 03:00 PM in Activism, All the Real Indians Died Off, American Society, Artemis Joukowsky, III, Arthur Browne, Atef Abu Saif, Biography and Memoir, Christopher Emdin, Cornel West, Defying the Nazis, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Eboo Patel, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, History, Literature and the Arts, Lori L. Tharps, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mary Frances Berry, One Righteous Man, Politics and Current Events, Progressive Education, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Rafia Zakaria, Rashod Ollison, Religion, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Same Family, Different Colors, Science and Medicine, Soul Serenade, The Drone Eats With Me, The Radical King, The Upstairs Wife, Thich Nhat Hanh | | Comments (0)

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Post-Election 2016 Reading to Inspire Action, Find Meaning, and Learn from Our History

November 21, 2016

The results of the 2016 presidential election have left many people in shock and disappointment. In a time where people are fearing that a new administration will work to reverse much of the progress made in the last eight years, we are left wondering what the future holds. How do we continue to fight against climate change, fight for reproductive rights, LGBTQ protections, and racial and economic justice? Read more →

Posted at 05:23 PM in Activism, American Society, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Artemis Joukowsky, III, Aviva Chomsky, Biography and Memoir, Carole Joffe, Claire Conner, Defying the Nazis, Dennis A. Henigan, Detained and Deported, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars, Eboo Patel, Environment and Conservation, Eric Mann, Faith Ed., Family Pride, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, For All of Us, One Today, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People, History, Howard Zinn, James Baldwin, Joan Murray, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Linda K. Wertheimer, Literature and the Arts, Lyn Mikel Brown, Man's Search for Meaning, Margaret Regan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Shelton, Now More Than Ever, Playbook for Progressives, Powered By Girl, Progressive Education, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Richard Blanco, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Sacred Ground, The Miracle of Mindfulness, The Third Reconstruction, They Take Our Jobs, Thich Nhat Hanh, Viktor Frankl, Wen Stephenson, What We're Fighting For Now Is Each Other, Where Do We Go From Here?, Wrapped in the Flag | | Comments (0)

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Defying the Nazis: Discovering the Heroic Legacy of Martha and Waitstill Sharp

May 05, 2016

By Artemis Joukowsky: It was 1976, and I was a freshman attending the Allen-Stevenson School in New York City. My history and social studies teacher, John Pariseau, assigned a class report on the subject of moral courage. Pariseau further instructed us to build our papers around a personal interview. Read more →

Posted at 02:09 PM in Artemis Joukowsky, III, Biography and Memoir, Defying the Nazis, History, Religion | | Comments (0)

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