social justice

Presents a collection of essays that examine opposing views on the issue of social justice, including information on economic, racial, and gender inequality.

Presents a collection of over fifteen hundred quotes from historical and contemporary poets, novelists, activists, musicians, and political leaders, including Margaret Cho, Edwidge Danticat, and Ch?gyam Trungpa, on topics of social change and justice, colonization, racism, gender, identity, and more.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

These stories raise many more questions than they answer. The endings are ambiguous, leaving the situation hanging.

Discusses the widening wealth gap in the United States and how it is affecting the culture and quality of life.

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day.

"HEROES IN THE NIGHT traces journalist Tea Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice--helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or patrolling their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. Through historic research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking on patrol in Brooklyn and Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. HEROES IN THE NIGHT profiles dozens of RLSHs and shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well"--.

Presents a biography of young Malala Yousafzai, a teenage Pakistani girl who has become an activist for women's education in her country.