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@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls VOICES FROM THE KITCHEN: PERSONAL NARRATIVE FROM NEW YORK'S RESTAURANT WORKERS by Marc Meyer "a loving spotlight on ordinary people who have become political targets.” On sale now from @beaconpress.bsky.social!

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Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York’s Immigrant Restaurant Workers by
Restaurateur Meyer talked with his own employees for this bighearted and inviting collection of nearly 30 firsthand accounts fro...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author @dinagw.bsky.social knows that it’s complicated to talk about Native American identity. Here, she has an in depth conversation about it with WUNC North Carolina Public Radio.

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How Fake Claims To Native Identity Cause Real Harm
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November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Gloria J. Browne-Marshall was on WRKF's "Talk Louisiana" this week discussing her book, A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Have a listen! bit.ly/4pdHbbP
Gloria Browne Marshall, Mary Stein, David St Romain
Civil rights attorney, activist, and author Gloria Browne Marshall discusses various political topics and her new book "A Protest History of the United States". Assistant Director for the East Baton R...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Mirta Ojito's HUNTING SEASON: IMMIGRATION AND MURDER IN AN ALL-AMERICAN TOWN is now available as an audiobook! Have a listen to a brief narration from the prologue!
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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"Protest is very American." Catch @beaconpress.bsky.social author Gloria J. Browne-Marshall on the @eddrickshow.bsky.social as she discusses A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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A Protest History of the United States: Why It Matters Now | Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
YouTube video by The Eddrick Show!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"Had I written about my life in Persian, I would have softened the edges." A beautiful @literaryhub.bsky.social piece by @beaconpress.bsky.social author Atash Yaghmaian about how sharing her story in English allowed her to stop hiding and thrive.

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A Different Side of the Self: On Finding Freedom By Telling My Story in English
When it came time to write my memoir, My Name Means Fire, I chose to write it in English. There’s irony in that, of course. I wrote in English, but my name, “Atash”—which means “fire” in Persian—is…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Gloria Browne-Marshall briefly weighs in on the trend of inflatable costumes at "No Kings" marches, noting how their whimsy counter the images and the propaganda put out about protestors.

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How inflatable costumes ballooned at anti-Trump rallies
Puffed-out costumes — hippos in tutus, Mr. Potato Heads, dinosaurs — have become a feature of protests against the Trump administration
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October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Gloria J. Browne-Marshall sat down with @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social's "The 21st Show" to discuss this past weekend's national NO KINGS protests and her book PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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No Kings and ‘A Protest History of the United States’ | Illinois Public Media
Millions of Americans took to the streets across the country this weekend for the latest No Kings protest. The event happened in cities across Illinois, including Chicago, Springfield, Champaign-Urban...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Pod Save the People posted an excellent interview yesterday with @madameclair08.bsky.social. Have a listen!

Her book TELL HER STORY: ELEANOR BUMPURS & THE POLICE KILLING THAT GALVANIZED NEW YORK CITY is out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social.
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Democracy for Sale w/ LaShawn Harris | Crooked Media
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October 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Ilan Pappe recently sat down with @ruwithsonali.bsky.social to discuss his latest book ISRAEL ON THE BRINK and its imagining of a more hopeful future in the Middle East.

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How to End Israel’s Genocide in Gaza?
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October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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@todayshow.com how ran a wonderful excerpt from @beaconpress.bsky.social author Marc Meyer's VOICES FROM THE KITCHEN featuring Ernesto, a NYC sous chef. Marc's book will be on sale on November 18th.

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From a Tiny Mexican Town to NYC, This Immigrant Chef Feels at ‘Home’ in Restaurant Kitchens
When I came to New York, my oldest brother asked me, “What do you want to do? There are no fields here and what else do you know?” I said, “I want to be a cook.”
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October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social did a great interview with @beaconpress.bsky.social author @rebeccakelliher.bsky.social about her book JUST PILLS, discussing the science behind the medication, attempts at banning it, and her research while writing JUST PILLS.

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Pills Have Legs | Los Angeles Review of Books
Julia Lloyd George interviews Rebecca Kelliher about her new book “Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care.”
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October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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UNC College of Arts and Sciences did a great profile about @beaconpress.bsky.social author @sgriest.bsky.social and her latest book ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Learn more about this "art monk" and her quest to find community below!

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Finding her (artistic) congregation - College of Arts and Sciences
Globe-trotting author Stephanie Elizondo Griest journeyed to 12 countries to interview 70 women artists about the trials and triumphs of pursuing art above everything else.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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2 years ago today the October 7th attack on Israel occurred and the ensuing war on Gaza began. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy excerpted "Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine" from ISRAEL ON THE BRINK by @beaconpress.bsky.social author Ilan Pappé to mark the moment.

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Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine
A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…
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October 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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As @beaconpress.bsky.social author @terencekeel.bsky.social opines in the @latimes.com, the push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail instead endangers more people. Check out his great piece below.

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Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety
Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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@sfdirewolf.bsky.social shared a nice book write up for Margeaux Feldman's TOUCH ME, I'M SICK, out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social. She's also doing a giveaway & 7 winners will receive copies, so check out her newsletter & sign up to win!

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Touch Me, I’m Sick!
Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since you heard from me. I’ve been working on my next anthology, Disability Vulnerability, and enjoy summer after a harrowing 9 weeks of bed rest. I’m delighted t...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Big congratulations to @paulpeartsmith.bsky.social and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for their win at the Massachusetts Center for the Book Awards! @beaconpress.bsky.social is so proud to publish both the vital original work and this fantastic adaptation.
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A great and powerful piece by author Sara Moslener in ‪@religiondispatches.org‬. Her latest book AFTER PURITY will be released in December by @beaconpress.bsky.social.

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I Will Always Be Afraid of James Dobson
Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and rigidl...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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@talkingpointsmemo.com posted a great excerpt from @beaconpress.bsky.social author Margaret Grace Myers' FIGHT FOR SEX ED this week. Definitely give it a read!

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How the Christian Right Hijacked the Fight for Sex Ed in America’s Public Schools
Formal school-based sex ed in the United States was born of the...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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@borderlessmag.bsky.social shared an in depth excerpt from @anterobot.bsky.social and Alix Dick's THE COST OF BEING UNDOCUMENTED, in which Alix discusses her past and how she came to be in the US. A powerful read. @beaconpress.bsky.social

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The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math – Borderless Magazine NFP
Alix Dick and Antero Garcia tally the structural costs of undocumented life in an excerpt from their new book
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August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Aviva Chomsky's UNDOCUMENTED: HOW IMMIGRATION BECAME ILLEGAL got a shout out on Hasan Minhaj's podcast earlier this week. It's so great that backlist @beaconpress.bsky.social titles are still sparking conversation.

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August 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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@beaconpress.bsky.social author Heidi Boghosian did a great interview with @projectcensored.bsky.social discussing digital literacy in an age of connectivity and her book CYBER CITIZENS: SAVING DEMOCRACY WITH DIGITAL LITERACY.

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Being Good Cyber Citizens in the Digital Age, with Heidi Boghosian
YouTube video by ProjectCensored
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August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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‪@literaryhub.bsky.social ran a terrific excerpt from THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED by Margaret Grace Myers, examining how the AIDS epidemic laid the foundations for sex education in the US. The book is on sale now from @beaconpress.bsky.social.

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How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America
The Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), nicknamed the “chastity bill,” was a federal law that provided funding for teen pregnancy prevention under Ronald Reagan’s Omnibus Budget Re…
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August 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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It was very meaningful to be interviewed by @bklynlibrary.bsky.social alongside Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss Howard Zinn's radical take on history. @beaconpress.bsky.social is proud to publish our REVISIONING HISTORY series titles in that same vein. www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/leg...
The Legacy of Howard Zinn's Radical History | Brooklyn Public Library
Don Dumas Without Zinn, I don't know what I would be doing right now.Adwoa Adusei This is Don Dumas. He lives in San Diego, California – and when he first came across Howard Zinn’s A People's History ...
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August 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Happy #BookBirthday VIKTOR E. FRANKL AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING! Pam Roy and Moira Hummel's guided journaling companion introduces Frankl's message to readers in a whole new way and @beaconpress.bsky.social is so proud to have played a part.
August 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM