National Network for Equitable Library Service

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book.

Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it "rule number one of the jockocracy": sports and politics just don't mix.

The campaign to abolish slavery in the United States was the most powerful and effective social movement of the nineteenth century and has served as a recurring source of inspiration for every subs

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy.

On March 18, 1963, in one of its most significant legal decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v.

The body of a young American serviceman is found floating in the canal by the Basilica of San Giovanni e Paolo. Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police investigates

Black Stats-a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation.

In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world.

Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries.

When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born.

When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched.

On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts assembled at the prestigious New York

Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away in 2012, was one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age.

First published to great acclaim in 2000, Rich Media, Poor Democracy is Robert W. McChesney's magnum opus.

We all know that orange is the new black and mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow, but how much do we actually know about the structure, goals, and impact of our criminal justice system' Und