In The Banks We Deserve, journalist Oscar Perry Abello argues that community banking has a crucial role to play in addressing urgent social challenges, from creating a more racially just economy to preparing for a changing climate.

This is the one that started it all. The first book I ever snuck from my mom’s smut collection, so for my birthday month, we’re going back to where it all began!

Join us as we honor the anniversary of the 2015 uprising with a screening of Not About A Riot by Malaika Aminata. This powerful film recounts the past ten years of police accountability work in Baltimore and invites us to reflect on what's needed for the struggles ahead.

Bring a lightly used book, zine or vinyl by a Black author or artist to swap with others from 10-5PM!

Teams arrive by 6:45 to sign up!

Exposing how marginalized communities are vilified by “carceral safety” systems, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies in favor of ones grounded in grassroots organizing and abolition.

The over 800 billion dollar trucking industry is currently facing an A.I. driven arms race, through the development of self-driving trucks, by some of America’s most powerful companies.

Through the story of the fight over gay rights, Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer reveals how and why certain experts—but not others—obtain the authority to shape public opinion and policy. At a time of soaring public distrust in experts, this book offers new ways to understand the contested political role of expertise and its consequences.

Hubert Harrison, the “father of Harlem radicalism,” blazed a trail for Black organizers in the Socialist Party. His Liberty League of Negro Americans catalyzed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organization of Black people in history. And Harrison defended free love and freethinking. Because of his radicalism, however, Harrison’s visionary legacy has been erased from popular memory. Until now.

Please join BAM for a free screening of the documentary RIOTSVILLE, USA, followed by a facilitated discussion. No cop city in Baltimore, no cop city anywhere!

Friends and frequent writing partners, authors Charlotte Shane and Harron Walker will join us for a conversation on labor, as well as matters of desire, bodily autonomy, and frank discussions of sex work and trans issues.

A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force—water—through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers

The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life.

Working people today face widespread anti-union campaigns led by politicians, corporations and techno-billionaires. The forces lined up against labor are formidable. But are they unbeatable? That question was answered decisively in 1970 in deeply Republican and rural Garrett County—Maryland’s wilderness county.

A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real—from a formidable new voice in political journalism

Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” THE WAR OF ART tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the 1960s to the present.

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.