2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Authors we brought to Baltimore
Just some of the highlights from the events we hosted in our first year on North Ave.
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Groundbreaking history of economic democracy in black communities
The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State
Naomi Murakawa
Challenging account of the rise of mass incarceration
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free
Cory Doctorow
Great intro to the political economy of cultural production in the 21st century
The Counter-Revolution Of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Gerald Horne
The origins of the American national project in settler's fears of abolition and insurgency
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The history of the US from the perspective of the colonized
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. (Author)
A SNCC veteran sets the record straight
Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-out Cities
Mindy Thompson Fullilove (Author)
Essential and enagaging reflection on the city as it is and how it could be