Join Red Emma’s for a lively conversation between poet and abolitionist H.R. Webster and Baltimore-based multidisciplinary artist Stephanie Barber on the world-making potential of art in the fight for abolitionist futures. Webster will also talk about her work with incarcerated poet Demetrius A. Buckley, and will read from his chapbook Here is Home, which recently won the Cave Canem's Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize.
In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.” Accompanied by her cats, Moore moves to the bungalow in her new city where she gardens, befriends the neighborhood youth, and grows to intimately understand civic collapse and community solidarity. When the troubled history of her prize house comes to light, Moore finds her life destabilized by the aftershocks of the housing crisis and governmental corruption.
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating.
The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together three decades of Black Communist women’s political writings. In doing so, it highlights the link between Communism and Black liberation. Likewise, it makes clear how Black women fundamentally shaped, and were shaped by, Communist praxis in the twentieth century.
Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city.
Location and hours
3128 Greenmount Avenue Baltimore, MD
Opening Spring 2022
Our old location at 1225 Cathedral St. is open with limited hours (bookstore only).