We’re having a listening party! Come through to hear SOUNDS OF BALTIMORE Vol 2 in full. Some of our DJs will be playing some tunes beforehand and the album listening starts at 6.

Join us for a discussion and zine-making session exploring the power of media narratives and how the public can organize for fairer, more accurate coverage!

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.

Join the Baltimore Abolition Movement (BAM) for a free political education event! This is Part 1 in our 4-part series on “Abolition 101,” aimed at creating a welcoming and supportive co-learning space for all community members interested in resisting policing and prisons.

Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them.

Join us for a special event celebrating the release of the first collection of writings from by a beloved thinker in Black anarchism and a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.

Who doesn't love a collage?! This month's art show has over 10 Baltimore City artists who are sharing their collage art pieces with us throughout September. Stop by any time during open hours starting September 1st and please attend the artist reception and vending will be on September 16th from 5-7pm.

Drawn from the American Prison Writing Archive, a pivotal anthology of essays by incarcerated writers about the prison’s role in perpetuating harm

A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal.

Jenn M. Jackson (author of Black Women Taught Us) joins Baltimore’s own Alanah Nichole Davis for a look back at the life and legacy of Sojourner Truth, in celebration of the new edition of Truth’s autobiography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, published this August.

From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me is Mark Anthony Neal’s attempt to bring his scholarship on fatherhood to a broader audience.

A handbook for achieving social change through collective action based on lessons from a revolutionary movement’s struggle for housing justice in Spain.

From the groundbreaking trans scholar Susan Stryker, a provocative, genre-bending call to reconsider the story we tell about gender itself.

A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.

An exploration of sisterhood, creativity, and community inspired by the artist Alma Thomas’s life and work, from the award-winning poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Prepare to be transported on a cosmic journey where ancient African Diasporic wisdom meets expansive Afrofuturist visions.

An ecolit and poety panel to inspire action.

For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America.

The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age.

Marcellus Vinson, the current Baltimore City Youth Poet Laureate, showcases the activation of spoken word and its transformative properties for Baltimore’s youth. He invites the community to listen to often unheard voices through the power of wordplay, metaphor, and vivid imagery.

A warm, accepting, non-judgmental, and stigma-free companion for your abortion journey.

The first-ever history of the Anti-Defamation League and its determined, century-long alliance with Western empire.

The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.

An essential handbook of eye-opening—and frequently myth-busting—facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today and a powerful exploration of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting Black girls in schools.

In a time of rising authoritarianism and attacks on personal freedoms, the New York Times bestselling author of I'M STILL HERE chronicles her efforts to live as her full self in a society that wants women—and Black women in particular—to do anything but that.

A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance.

How have legacy Black publishers built and sustained independent publishing houses across generations? How does publishing Black books empower our community today? What will it take to preserve and grow indie publishing for generations to come?

A personal and analytical essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from throughout the global Black diaspora, and the traditions that raised him.

Solidarity knows no borders

NYC-based theater-maker Lizzie Olesker and filmmaker Lynne Sachs present HAND BOOK, a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our urban reality. Their performative reading and short film screening will take a deep, poetic dive into laundry and its history. The authors will be joined by Baltimore artist Laure Drogoul and film artist-curator Joanna Raczynska.

A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime

In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all.

The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period

TOGETHER WE FIGHT explores Indigenous and non‑Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilization and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice.

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other.

The forgotten lynching that launched America's fight for Black voting rights—and the federal cover-up that followed.

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present