By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, …
Read More >By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation This post was originally published on The Conversation, and is reposted here with permission. Billions of …
Read More >By Kimberly Hannon Teal, author of Jazz Places: How Performance Spaces Shape Jazz History In some ways, it’s completely unremarkable that pianist Fred Hersch spent his 66th birthday earlier this October recording …
Read More >Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, collected together in a three-volume set.
Read More >This Spring author Maxine Gordon continues her extensive tour of speaking engagements and presentations around the release of Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon, the highly-acclaimed official biography of her late …
Read More >by Vicki Mayer, author of Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy Probably no one in media studies loves tax policy. Or economic multiplier equations. Or state …
Read More >By Lia Tjandra, Art Director with Dore Brown, Principal Editor Each title in the atlas series had more moving pieces than any other book we’ve published. Multiple authors and contributors produced different parts …
Read More >This week we’re taking another look at Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas with editor-at-large Garnette Cadogan‘s “City of Walkers” map and essay. Check in next week for more Nonstop Metropolis sneak …
Read More >As Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas inches closer to release, we’re taking time to revisit the widely-loved, bestselling first two atlases from Rebecca Solnit and many illustrious contributing essayists and artists. Last week …
Read More >In the last 40 years millions of jobs in the United states have been lost due to capital flight and deindustrialization. Unemployment rates have skyrocketed for all workers, but especially Black workers. …
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