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Beacon Press books seek to change the way readers think about fundamental issues, promoting such values as freedom of speech and thought, the importance of economic and social justice issues, religious pluralism, respect for our environment, and the importance of the arts in a civil society.Beacon has published several national bestsellers, and its books are frequently reviewed and discussed in national print and broadcast media.They are also used in university and secondary school curricula, citywide reading programs, and reading groups, and within a variety of organizational and faith - based reading programs.

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Invisible No More
Author: Andrea J. Ritchie   Foreword: Angela Y. Davis
Product Code: 6581
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 08/20/2017
 

A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.


 
 
Price: $21.00
Is Science Enough?
Author: Aviva Chomsky
Product Code: 8929
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/05/2022
 

Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe


 
 
Price: $16.00
It's Not Magic
Author: Jon Sands
Product Code: 6923
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/01/2019
 
Snapshots of youth, displayed with verve and sparkling clarity, in a new collection of poems
 
 
Price: $16.00
Jesus and the Disinherited
Author: Howard Thurman   Foreword by: The Rev. Dr Kelly Brown Douglas
Product Code: 8932
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
 

A commemorative edition of the work that inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped shape the civil rights movement


 
 
Price: $22.95
Jimmy's Blues
Introduction By: Nikky Finney   Author: James Baldwin
Product Code: 5447
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 04/01/2014
 
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition.
 
 
Price: $16.00
Julian Bond's Time to Teach
Author: Horace Julian Bond   Foreword by: Pamela Horowitz   Afterword by: Vann R. Newkirk II   Photographs by: Danny Lyon   Introduction by: Jeanne Theoharris
Product Code: 5913
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 01/11/2022
 

A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it


 
 
Price: $20.00
Junk Raft
Author: Marcus Eriksen
Product Code: 6752
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 06/05/2018
 

An exciting account of an activist scientist’s unorthodox fight against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made junk raft


 
 
Price: $18.00
Kabir
Translated By: Robert Bly
Product Code: 5255
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 04/15/2007
 

 
 
Price: $15.00
Kindred
Author: Octavia E. Butler   Foreword by: Tomi Adeyemi
Product Code: 9341
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 05/21/2024
 

Now with a new foreword by author Tomi Adeyemi

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation


 
 
Price: $14.99
Kindred (p)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Product Code: 4119
Binding Info: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 03/01/1990
 

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us - along with her Black female hero - through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

More on order


 
 
Price: $16.00
Kindred, Gift Ed
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Product Code: 3180
Binding Info: Hardback
Publisher: Beacon
Publication Date: 09/20/2022
 

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

Soon to be an FX Networks TV series with a pilot directed by Janicza Bravo (Zola), written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), and executive produced by Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain)


 
 
Price: $27.95
Launching While Female
Author: Susanne Althoff
Product Code: 5905
Binding Info: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 10/26/2021
 

An exposé of the gender gap in entrepreneurship and a road map for a more inclusive and economically successful future for us all


 
 
Price: $14.95
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