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An independent publisher. Changing minds about justice since 1992. lnk.bio/thenewpress
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Jeanne Theoharis
4 days ago
It was such fun to be on
@democracynow.org
to talk about the myths of the Montgomery bus boycott & emphasize that the courage of Rosa Parks was her ability to take step after step without indication that any of them would matter. We have to stop looking for the 'right' action and just take action.
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The Guardian
8 days ago
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
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What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/07/montgomery-bus-boycott?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765110231
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Beyond Plastics
11 days ago
www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/...
🏷️
@eve-fox.bsky.social
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@goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social
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@woodstockland.bsky.social
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@thenewpress.bsky.social
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Sunday, 12/7/25 at 5:00 PM | Book Talk in Woodstock, NY with Eve Fox — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
Join Eve Fox of Beyond Plastics for a conversation about the new book, “The Problem with Plastic” with friends from Woodstock Land Conservancy and Citizens Concerned about Plastic Pollution.
https://www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/golden-notebook
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Marketplace
11 days ago
“It's not a science issue. It really is a political science issue.” If it feels like plastics are everywhere lately, that’s because they are. But Judith Enck, author and former EPA official, says there are solutions to our growing plastics problem.
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A world without plastic
In her new book “The Problem with Plastic,” a former EPA official looks at the costs of plastic overproduction and how we can move beyond it
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/12/03/a-world-without-plastic
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david i. backer
13 days ago
MY BOOK IS OFFICIALLY OUT TODAY! Here’s a press release, but you can also DM me if you want copies, interviews, etc.
www.aspublicaspossiblebook.com
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adam mahoney (he/him)
13 days ago
Today, THE PROBLEM WITH PLASTIC — a book I helped write last year with
@beyondplastics.bsky.social
— is finally out in the world. You can find an excerpt on THE COST of CONVENIENCE in Capital B today.
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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Plastics and The Cost of Convenience on Black Communities
How Louisiana’s Black communities are fighting to survive in a battle where every breath, every drop of water, and every patch of land is at stake.
https://capitalbnews.org/plastic-polution-impact-black-communities/
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Money on the Left
14 days ago
✨ MotL 85 is live! ✨ We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall U., to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
, 2025).
moneyontheleft.org/2025/12/01/r...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
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Eve Fox, Feed Your Fight
13 days ago
I'll be talking about our new book, "The Problem with Plastic" in Woodstock, NY this Sun, 12/7 at 5PM with
@woodstockland.bsky.social
Citizens Concerned About Plastic Pollution & The Golden Notebook. Join us!
www.beyondplastics.org/book-events/...
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Manan Ahmed
26 days ago
Historian Chris Moffat updates *Disrupted City* by thinking about the shifting landscapes of Lahore since the 2000s.
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Walking Lahore, Watching the World - Public Books
The new mosque's central dome dominates the town's skyline, but competes with an 80-metre-high replica Eiffel Tower, and a scale reproduction of Trafalgar Square.
https://www.publicbooks.org/walking-lahore-watching-the-world/
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An exhilarating tale examining the intersection of our world and the next. Read a starred review 🌟 of DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social in Kirkus Reviews
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Prisonculture
28 days ago
I think that a lot of people on here need to read
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
's King of the North because a lot of you on here are ABSOLUTELY historically illiterate. I'm sorry but it has to be said:
thenewpress.org/books/king-o...
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King of the North - The New Press
A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated BookFrom the New York Times bestselling author, a radical reframing of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. “Theoharis shows us through penetrating research and...
https://thenewpress.org/books/king-of-the-north/?v=eb65bcceaa5f
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"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights.." - Read a review of Sim Butler's AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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30 days ago
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Bigfoot Books & Brews
about 1 month ago
We are SO looking forward to hosting Sim Butler Author Talk & Book Signing here at Bigfoot Books & Brews on Friday, December 12!
www.bigfootbooksnc.com/events/sim-b...
#SimButler
#AndTheDragonsDoCome
#LGBTQ
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about 1 month ago
THIS WEEK! TUESDAY:
@biancatylek.bsky.social
, co-author with
@worthrises.bsky.social
of, "The Prison Industry" (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
). WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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John Archibald
about 1 month ago
Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
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Jeanne Theoharis
about 1 month ago
This Thursday November 6!! Join us online at 6:30 EST for an urgent conversation on the Fight for Black History and Black Education with
@jessehagopian.bsky.social
,
@brianjoneseducator.bsky.social
,
@barrygoldenberg.bsky.social
, and Crystal Sanders.
www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-the-f...
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CBFS: The Fight for Black Education and Black History
Scholars, organizers, and teachers discuss teaching and documenting Black History in this online program.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cbfs-the-fight-for-black-education-and-black-history-tickets-1818750003219?aff=schomburgsocialmedia
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about 2 months ago
NEW FREE HELL! Our guest is
@philipkadish.bsky.social
, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
). Support our work -- and get daily bonus content -- before we're labelled criminals under Trump's NSPM-7.
www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...
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NEW EP! The Great White Hoaxes of Racial Inferiority and White Supremacy | This Is Hell!
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep-great-of-141898723
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"Butler debuts with a poignant memoir of raising his transgender daughter in the rural South." - Read a review of newly published AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Zinn Education Project
about 2 months ago
"Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling" is an antidote to silence in textbooks about U.S. prison-industrial complex. In graphic novel format, facts & history of criminal injustice system are made accessible for grades 7 to adult.
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Book — Non-fiction. By Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones. 2013. 128 pages. Based on the popular book Race to Incarcerate, this graphic adaptation is a key resource to introduce a study of U.S. prison syste...
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/race-to-incarcerate-a-graphic-retelling/
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Jeanne Theoharis
about 2 months ago
Looking forward to this! Please join us.
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about 2 months ago
This week in Hell! TUESDAY: Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness" (
@plutopress.bsky.social
). WEDNESDAY: Philip Kadish, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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This Is Hell!
Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.
https://thisishell.com
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"Mabanckou writes with equal doses of whimsy and descriptiveness, creating a hero’s journey told backward." - Kirkus Reviews 🌟 on @mabanckou.bsky.social's DEALING WITH THE DEAD
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Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
2 months ago
NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH: October 16 @ 6pm Ghost Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar. RSVP TODAY:
steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Book Launch | Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Join Emile DeWeaver, author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future, in conversation with NYU Associate Researcher, Itzel Corona Aguilar.
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-ghost-criminal-justice-machine?fbclid=PARlRTSANNEEVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABpxBUjF18eCCSfGTlLe38hDN3t7dC2vm0Dh3WM2ldWP9snPOS-T60YraMlZYB_aem_hyqvxJ3oYA2eUgHqAPhVGQ
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"A moving glimpse of the struggle for trans kids’ rights." - Read a review of the forthcoming AND THE DRAGONS DO COME in this week's @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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Goddard Riverside
3 months ago
Shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize: Copaganda, by
@equalityalec.bsky.social
for
@thenewpress.bsky.social
! Copaganda exposes the cozy relationship between law enforcement agencies and media outlets, revealing how public perception is shaped to favor the police.
#GoddardBookPrizes
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Goddard Riverside
3 months ago
Pay the People! is shortlisted for our adult social justice book prize! Congrats to John Driscoll, Morris Pearl,
@patrioticmillionaires.org
and
@thenewpress.bsky.social
. Pay the People! argues that fair wages are beneficial to both the economy and societal well-being.
#GoddardBookPrizes
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Goddard Riverside
3 months ago
Protect Your People, by Raj Jayadev for
@thenewpress.bsky.social
, has been shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice! It explores how communities are working together to combat the injustices of mass incarceration.
#GoddardBookPrizes
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Janet Gornick
3 months ago
New book alert!
#Inequality
scholars:, don't miss Chuck Collins' new book: Burned by Billionaires. It's both breezy and fact-filled. "An economy that funnels wealth to billionaires ... fuels division and civil discord."
@inequality.org
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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Burned by Billionaires - The New Press
An exposé of the hidden impact of America’s überwealthy on the country’s economy, environmental health, housing market, and political system Even if you don’t begrudge the ultrarich their multiple va...
https://thenewpress.org/books/burned-by-billionaires/?v=eb65bcceaa5f
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"A journey back from the dead is illuminated by thrilling, one-of-a-kind encounters." - Read a starred review 🌟 of the newly published DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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The Arts Fuse
3 months ago
Bob Katz on "Organizing America" (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
). The book presents brisk, capsule biographies of twenty largely under-publicized figures who, against the odds to promote a range of underdog causes, from abolition to union organizing to disarmament.
artsfuse.org/317381/book-...
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Subtext Bookstore
3 months ago
Sometimes, when I'm receiving new arrivals, the books just jump right out of the box and into my hands and then I stop everything I'm doing and read 10 pages and then I buy a new book to bring home. This is one of those times. Congrats on the new book
@dskamper.bsky.social
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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In
@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
new work, KING OF THE NORTH, she shows Dr. King's life, legacy, and relationships in a new light. Here she is at Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, discussing his gift for listening. Book available here:
thenewpress.org/books/king-o...
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Read an interview with
@mabanckou.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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PEN America
3 months ago
In a new
#PENTen
interview, Alain Mabanckou, acclaimed poet, novelist, and UCLA professor, discusses the dangers of writing, the use of language in crafting meaning—and his newest book, Dealing with the Dead, out now from
@thenewpress.bsky.social
. See the full interview here:
pen.org/alain-mabanc...
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A Novel Takes on the Threat of Political Violence
In this PEN Ten interview, Alain Mabanckou discusses the power of literature in a time when government corruption is a dangerous reality.
https://pen.org/alain-mabanckou-the-pen-ten-interview/
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Nick Covington
3 months ago
So stoked to dig into
@schooldaves.bsky.social
's upcoming book, As Public As Possible: Radical Finance for America's Public Schools, for an upcoming
@humanrestorationproject.org
podcast! Link from publisher,
@thenewpress.bsky.social
:
thenewpress.org/books/as-pub...
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ExpendableMudge (he/him)
3 months ago
@thenewpress.bsky.social
publishes DEALING WITH THE DEAD: A Novel by ALAIN MABANCKOU & translated by Helen Stevenson tomorrow. It's a return to Pointe-Noire in fantasyland form...tackling political violence, history's lies, and cultural stasis.
#Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/alai...
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ALAIN MABANCKOU'S PAGE: DEALING WITH THE DEAD: A Novel, return to Pointe-Noire in fantasyland
DEALING WITH THE DEAD: A Novel ALAIN MABANCKOU (tr. Helen Stevenson) The New Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $24.99 all edi...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/09/alain-mabanckous-page-dealing-with-dead.html
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Beyond Plastics
3 months ago
We wrote a BOOK! 📘 “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” is due out from
@thenewpress.bsky.social
on Dec. 2 🗓️ Pre-order your copy right now:
www.beyondplastics.org/problem-with...
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3 months ago
THIS WEEK IN HELL! TUESDAY at 10AM CDT: Bronwen Everill is author of, "Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance" (
@thenewpress.bsky.social
). WEDNESDAY at 11AM CDT: Jessica Field, author of, "Eviction: A Social History of Rent" (
@versobooks.bsky.social
).
www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
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THIS WEEK IN HELL! Africonomics and Eviction | This Is Hell!
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"An impactful read." - @mabanckou.bsky.social's new novel DEALING WITH THE DEAD "combines magical realism, horror, and literary fiction." Read a review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social
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Lenore Palladino
3 months ago
I'm writing a new book called "The Myth that Shareholders are Investors," under contract with
@thenewpress.bsky.social
in it I get to tell a lot of stories about how this myth-- that sharetrading automatically means that productive stuff happens-- is *everywhere* pls send me interesting examples
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"Mabanckou writes with equal doses of whimsy and descriptiveness, creating a hero’s journey told backward." - Read a starred review 🌟 of the forthcoming DEALING WITH THE DEAD by @mabanckou.bsky.social in the new issue of Kirkus Reviews
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4 months ago
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Manan Ahmed
5 months ago
Delighted to find *Disrupted City* on the longlist for the Cundill History Prize 2025
www.cundillprize.com/news/the-202...
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Beyond Plastics
5 months ago
We wrote a BOOK! 📘 “The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late” is due out from
@thenewpress.bsky.social
on Dec. 2.🗓️ But you can pre-order your copy right now🖱️at:
www.beyondplastics.org/problem-with...
#toxicplastic
#planetorplastic
#environmentaljustice
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Natasha Hakimi Zapata
6 months ago
Beyond thrilled to announce ANOTHER CITY IS POSSIBLE (a follow up of sorts to my first book on progressive policies through a more local lens) is forthcoming from
@thenewpress.bsky.social
! So grateful to Marc Favreau, Rob McQuilkin, and everyone at The New Press and MMQALit.
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M.A.Orthofer
5 months ago
In the mail: nice duo from
@thenewpress.bsky.social
ARC of Alain Mabanckou's 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑑 (9/2025 (already out in the UK)
thenewpress.org/books/dealin...
) and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o' on 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒
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Chris Lombardi
6 months ago
By the way,
@thenewpress.bsky.social
just offered a 30% discount for my book, which Publishers Weekly called “an enlightening roundup of the long tradition of resistance within America’s armed forces.” Coupon code TNP30.
thenewpress.org/books/i-aint...
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I Ain’t Marching Anymore - The New Press
A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new vete...
https://thenewpress.org/books/i-aint-marching-anymore/
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Chris Lombardi
6 months ago
It occurred to someone else that this book might be relevant now,
@thenewpress.bsky.social
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alec karakatsanis
6 months ago
I was excited to do a deep dive on Copaganda for NPR's Code Switch. The episode is now out, and more relevant than ever.
www.npr.org/2025/06/11/1...
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Are we safe? How 'copaganda' makes the case for investing more in police : Code Switch
As President Trump flirts with invoking the Insurrection Act on anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, we look back at the national protests of 2020, when Trump last talked about invoking the act. Back then, t...
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/1253992708/copaganda
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"I advocate the equality of all languages, big and small. Languages are like all living organisms. They have to grow, but growth involves shedding off of dead skins and then comes the flower." Read @thenation.com's interview with the late literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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Reclaiming Language: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | The Nation
Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
https://ow.ly/ynbX50W5HXw
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