Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle recounts the excavation of unmarked graves at the Dozier School for Boys in Florida. Kimmerle and her team uncovered more than 50 unmarked graves at the reform school, where boys often reported sexual assault, beatings, and disappearances. History should not be forgotten, and Kimmerle shows that Florida still has a long …
Meet former Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins and her guest as they visit Portland to promote their new book “Comrade Sisters.” Join Third Eye Books for this event Friday October 14, 2022 at 4pm – 5pm. Third Eye Books 2518 SE 33rd Ave Portland, OR Many of us have heard these three words: Black …
This Is My America released at the beginning of a reckoning that’s been long overdue—the untended roots of race in America. These origins draw parallels not only to slavery and mass incarceration but to open wounds festering below the surface. My novel was born from many early lessons on race as a Black girl growing …
Written by Seattle’s own [retired] city council member and social activist Nick Licata, this book is what so many of us need now more than ever. Think of it as an instruction manual for social change, perfect if your call to arms needs some direction. –AJ, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA Get informed and …
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is out in paperback. . . The Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis as he is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy. Curtis falls in with a fellow “delinquent” named Turner, and the novel explores the very different reactions to the terrible system that …
Superman Smashes the Klan is a update of a Golden Age radio drama that writer Gene Luen Yang and illustrator Gurihiru have updated to the modern age. Superman is an immigrant, by the way, and an orphan. Oh, and he’s an alien. So, yeah, the big blue schoolboy has more in common with the disillusioned and …
“If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: “I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief …
In the Spring of 2019, troubling news rapidly spread through the Washington state book community that the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) had quietly banned free, used books from being mailed to prisoners through non-profit organizations like Seattle’s Books to Prisoners. After public outcry and the investigative journalism of Joseph O’Sullivan of the Seattle …
Oluo’s timely and powerful book posits that we need to talk about race but often don’t because we are afraid we will get it wrong, not know enough, not know how to answer common arguments, or otherwise cause more harm than good. In So You Want to Talk About Race, she uses straightforward language, clear …
A bare-knuckled love letter steeped in fatherly wisdom written to Coates’s son that rendered me speechless, angry, and hopeful. Coates writes with an urgency and a sensitivity that begs to be shared with those looking toward a future in which systemic oppression has no home in this country. –Blair, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA Find …
