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Beacon Broadside
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Beacon Broadside is a forum for commentary about culture, society, religion, politics, and social issues from Beacon Press, one of America's foremost progressive, independent publishers.
- Added on: Nov 14th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Beacon Broadside
- Listed in: Books Liberalism
- Tags: religion politics literature women's issues lgbt children and family
Recent Posts
S. Craig Watkins: Twitterball: Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Ochocinco and the Future of Sports
Today's post is from S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Watkins writes about youth, media, technology, and society. He is an Asso...
David Bacon: The Human Face of Budget Cuts
Today’s post is from David Bacon, author of Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon spent thirty years as a labor organizer and immigrant rights activist. His articles appear in The Nation, American ...
Howard Zinn\'s The People Speak Premieres on the History Channel this weekend
Embedded below is a CBS story about the film, based on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, which premieres this Sunday on the History Channel. If it doesn't appear, view the video on YouTube. ...
Mary Frances Berry: Obama\'s Nobel Lecture
Yesterday, President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. We turned for comment on the President's lecture to Mary Frances Berry, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the Uni...
Bill Gates, Sr. and Chuck Collins: The Estate Tax: Recycling Economic Opportunity
Today's post is from Bill Gates, Sr. is a retired Seattle attorney and author of Showing Up for Life, and Chuck Collins, co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good. They are co-authors of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated ...
Link Roundup: The King Legacy, Social Lives Online, Geoffrey Canada on 60 Minutes
Publishers Weekly highlights The King Legacy series, a new partnership between Beacon Press and the estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. The series launches next month with the publication of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story and Where Do We ...
