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CULTURE | Cecil Brown on the First Black Student Sit-In at A&T College
The four students who led the first A&T College Sit-in, image via Sitinmovement.org The following is an excerpt from Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? by Cecil Brown. We’ll post a new...
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CULTURE | After Newtown: ‘Gone Boy’ Author Gregory Gibson on PBS 2/22
Watch After Newtown — 30 Second Promo on PBS. See more from Need To Know. On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson’s eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by...
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CULTURE | Black History: Cornel West vs. Harvard President Larry Summers
“Dr. Cornel West: Collector” by Lbertman, via Wikimedia Commons The following is an excerpt from Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? by Cecil Brown. We’ll post a new excerpt from the book each...
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CULTURE | Podcast: Gregory Gibson’s New Vision for Gun Control
On December 14, 1992, Gregory Gibson’s eighteen-year-old son Galen was murdered, shot in the doorway of his college library by a fellow student gone berserk. The killer was jailed for life, but for...
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North Atlantic Books Launches a New Sacred Activism Series
North Atlantic Books is pleased to announce the launch of a new Sacred Activism series this Fall in collaboration with bestselling author of The Hope and Sacred Activism Institute founder Andrew...
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CULTURE | Sacred Activism Series Web Summit: A Discussion of Heart in Action
Celebrating the new Sacred Activism book series launching September 3, 2013, North Atlantic Books and Andrew Harvey presented a live webinar in June featuring the leading voices in the Sacred Activism...
View ArticleCULTURE | Free Excerpt: Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
“Civilization and the Human Sense of Self” from Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein (with videos of Charles speaking at various events throughout) More than any other species, human beings are...
View ArticleCULTURE | Cecil Brown on the First Black Student Sit-In at A&T College
The following is an excerpt from Dude, Where’s My Black Studies Department? by Cecil Brown. We’ll post a new excerpt from the book each week for the remainder of February, in honor of Black History...
View ArticleCULTURE | Prison Documentary, The House I Live In, Recently Featured on This...
Recently featured on This American Life, the documentary The House I Live In examines the so-called “war on drugs” and calls upon the United States to approach the issue as a public health matter and...
View ArticleCULTURE | Standing on Their Shoulders: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of...
On August 28, 2013, a march celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original “March for Jobs and Justice” where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech will commence in downtown...
View ArticleAuthor Matthew Fox on Tour: California, New York, Italy and More
This fall Matthew Fox will tour to promote the release of the new book Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation, co-authored with Adam Bucko, who will join him for several of the...
View ArticleWhite Lions Take Over Fashion Week in NYC
Over a decade ago, runway model Linda Tucker was touring through the Timbavati region of South Africa when she was surrounded by a pride of white lions. In the nick of time, a local tribeswoman came to...
View ArticleJournalism to Energize Citizen Deliberative Democracy
by Tom Atlee Practitioners and advocates involved with group process, dialogue and deliberation, public engagement, and deliberative democracy are aware that ordinary people, under the right...
View ArticleCollege of the Atlantic Releases New Guide to Mt. Desert Island
On September 25, College of the Atlantic celebrated the publication of its new book, The College of the Atlantic Guide to the Lakes and Ponds of Mt. Desert by William V. P. Newlin, Kenneth S. Cline,...
View ArticleFree Webinar Featuring Charles Eisenstein
Author of Sacred Economics and The Ascent of Humanity, Charles Eisenstein will discuss ideas from his newest book, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, during a free webinar on...
View ArticleNew Release: A Visionary Madness by Mike Jay
A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine Written by Mike Jay Foreword by Oliver Sacks Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews...
View ArticleJames Tilly Matthews, A Visionary Mad Man
The following is an excerpt from A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine by Mike Jay, foreword by Oliver Sacks. At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the essential...
View ArticleNew Release – Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power By Junius Williams Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the...
View ArticleExclusive Event: Robert David Steele and Open Source Everything
You’re invited to an exclusive lunchtime gathering with Robert David Steele, one of the leading proponents of Truth Culture and author of The Open-Source Everything Manifesto. When? Friday February 7,...
View ArticleMontgomery, 1965: Junius Williams on Protests, Jail, and The Martin Luther...
An excerpt from Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power by Junius Williams So it came to pass that in March of 1965 I entered the Southern Civil Rights Movement ready for frontline...
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