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.

Torches: an Emerging Writer's Circle is a monthly space for writers to hone their craft and create new work together in a community space.

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

Come out and show us what you've got! Calling all poets, rappers, musicians, and comedians! We invite you to perform at our local open mic night, here in Baltimore! Participants may perform up to 5 minutes, ONE piece!

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

An ecolit and poety panel to inspire action.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Join us for a conversation to resist the U.S. interconnected occupation of our lands: From Puerto Rico to Baltimore to Palestine!

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

Neither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.

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

A new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime.

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.

Come out and show us what you've got! Calling all poets, rappers, musicians, and comedians! We invite you to perform at our local open mic night, here in Baltimore! Participants may perform up to 5 minutes, ONE piece!

BLACK POWER PRAXIS shows how four groups of activist-intellectuals—James and Grace Lee Boggs, Richard and Milton Henry, Reverend Albert Cleage, and a group of college students called Uhuru—shifted the consciousness and political perspectives of Black Detroiters in the 1960s and 1970s.

Fabricant examines the present diminishment of democracy through the prism of intensifying conflict between market freedom and citizen rights. The fate of democracy is at the center of this book’s exploration of the decline of the welfare state and rise of radical right politics.

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

A vivid, enchanting novel, spanning over sixty years, chronicling the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of women in radical twentieth-century Barcelona—a rediscovered classic by “the shining light of Catalan literature.”