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Women, Race and Class (1981) is a collection of essays that expose how racism, sexism, and classism intertwined in the struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States. With special emphasis on the historical missteps of the mainstream feminist movement, it charts a path for an anti-racist and anti-classist feminism.

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Angela Yvonne Davis is a celebrated author, academic, and activist born in Birmingham, Alabama. She obtained her PhD in philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin, and is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is widely recognized for her lifelong activism combating various forms of oppression.

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Perversion of Justice (2021) reveals how a reporter for the Miami Herald broke the story behind Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes and the scandalous deal he got from the US justice system in 2008. It explains the history of the case, how the mysterious financier was able to escape justice for so long, and the important questions that remain unanswered.

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An Ugly Truth (2021) is a critical look behind the scenes of Facebook. This in-depth investigation reveals the politics and personalities animating the rise and subsequent missteps of this controversial social media behemoth.

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Sheera Frenkel is a cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times. Previously, she’s written for a diverse range of outlets including BuzzFeed, NPR, and the Times of London.

Cecilia Kang is a technology and policy reporter for the New York Times. Previously, she spent a decade writing for the Washington Post.

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An honest and thorough rendering, this award-winning work chronicles the public and personal challenges that came to define the political life of civil-rights activist Rosa Parks. Among other details of her activism, those presented here set the record straight on the personality that sparked the well-known bus boycott, which became a key moment in the civil rights movement.

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Jeanne Theoharis, PhD, completed her studies at Harvard and the University of Michigan and is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is an expert on the contemporary politics of race in the United States and has written and co-authored several titles on the subject.

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Isabel Allende is a literary giant known for novels such as Eva Luna, City of the Beasts, and her masterwork, The House of the Spirits. She was one of the first commercially successful female novelists from Latin America and is considered to be the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author. Her work has won numerous awards, including Chile’s National Literature Prize in 2010 and the 1989 American Book Award.

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The Light of Days (2021) tells the thrilling and harrowing story of the Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Poland who served as resistance fighters during World War II. These women took up arms in ghetto uprisings and served as important couriers on dangerous missions to transport guns and supplies across a hostile territory.

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Judy Batalion has a PhD in art history from the University of London’s Courtauld Institute. Originally from Montreal, she grew up speaking English, French, Hebrew, and Yiddish. She has contributed to Vogue, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Her previous book is White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between.

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Music by Federico Coderoni

Notorious RBG (2015) chronicles the life story of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. From her childhood in Brooklyn – when she was known by her nickname, Kiki – to capturing the public imagination with her scathing dissents on the bench, these blinks portray one woman’s relentless fight to give American women and men equal rights under the country’s legislation.

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The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) tells the story of the Great Migration – the biggest inner-border mass migration in US history. From 1915 to 1970, millions of Black Americans left the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in Northern cities. Focusing on the lives of three of those migrants, these blinks paint a vivid picture of the fears, hopes, and dreams that shaped the movement.

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Trick Mirror (2019) is the long-awaited first collection of writer and essayist Jia Tolentino. In nine intertwined stories, she tells of the trends and ideas – as well as the personal and collective delusions – that have shaped her life, our country, and the culture. Examining everything from the internet to workout crazes to modern marriage, Tolentino interweaves the personal and political, calling to mind great feminist writers like Susan Sontag and Joan Didion.

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In The Witches are Coming (2019) writer and feminist activist Lindy West applies her scalpel-sharp intellect to today’s political landscape. She uncovers the ideological agendas behind everything from Adam Sandler movies to the wellness movement, abortion rights to Louis C.K.’s comeback. This is feminism for the post #metoo era.

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In Know My Name (2019), Chanel Miller presents her side of what happened when she was sexually assaulted by Stanford student Brock Turner and forced to endure a long and traumatizing trial in the public eye. Drawing parallels between her own experience and the structural mistreatment of women in the court system, she explains what made her determined to share her story and empower other survivors.

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Chanel Miller is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with a degree in literature. The “victim statement” she wrote to explain the impact that Brock Turner’s sexual assault has had on her life was published by Buzzfeed and has been read over 18 million times. Know My Name is Miller’s first book.

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Catch and Kill (2019) is the gripping inside account of how the abuses of Hollywood’s most notorious predator, Harvey Weinstein, were brought to light. Along the way, veteran investigative reporter Ronan Farrow unpicks the conspiracy of silence that attempted to prevent his findings from ever being published and help Weinstein evade accountability for his history of sexual harassment, assault, and rape.

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Ronan Farrow is a contributing writer to the New Yorker and the author of many meticulously documented accounts of wrongdoing in high places. His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award. Farrow was previously an anchor and reporter for MSNBC and NBC News. Before taking up journalism, he served as a State Department official. Farrow is also the author of War on Peace, a 2018 study of American diplomacy.

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