September 2020 News
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New Releases

In her latest book, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove describes the power of Main Street to help us “name and solve our problems.” As more crises face the nation and the world, isolating us from one another, Dr. Fullilove's message of problem-solving through connection is all the more important.

"You will not see your neighborhood, nor your neighbors, the same way after reading this book." —Helena Hansen, Associate Professor, NYU Anthropology and Psychiatry Departments
Virtual Launch with Mindy Fullilove
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

Register to celebrate the launch of Main Street with the University of Orange popular education center. There will be music and poems from friends featured in Main Street, a reading, and an awards ceremony for some of the best Main Streets that Dr. Fullilove has visited. Tell us what you think of the event by tagging the University of Orange on Twitter (@UofO_07050) or Facebook and Instagram (@uoforange).

Order a signed copy from WORDS Bookstore!

With a masterful, poetic voice, Margaret Randall uses beloved objects and photographs as launching points for a nonlinear narrative of her remarkable life. Interwoven throughout are tales of her travels across the globe, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit. This beautiful color memoir comes out September 15.

"The exciting life of one of our progressive heroes. . . . No laundry lists or inconsequential details, just a brilliant octogenarian's loving visual memories."
—Lucy R. Lippard, writer, art critic, activist, and curator
Virtual Launches with Margaret Randall
Thursday, October 1, 2020
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Monday, October 5, 2020
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tune in to hear Margaret Randall read from My Life in 100 Objects.
Yale Symposium to Feature Mindy Fullilove
Thursday, September 10, 2020
6:30 PM ET

Dr. Mindy Fullilove will provide a keynote speech for this year’s J. Irwin Miller Symposium at the Yale School of Architecture. The symposium, titled Beyond the Visible: Space, Place, and Power in Mental Health, will gather interdisciplinary experts throughout September to create a shared understanding of how we can intentionally design our built environments for better mental health outcomes.
Housing and Health during COVID

“We must now firmly address—and federally fund—stable housing, as a crucial pillar of public health and racial justice.” Read the full article by Judi Kende & Dr. Mindy Fullilove in The Gotham Gazette.
Planning to Stay

“What we are learning as we go is that building the just city takes all of us.” Read the full essay by Mindy Fullilove in volume one of The Just City Essays by Harvard's Just City Lab.
Remembering Ann Snitow
In August of 2019, we lost a fiercely passionate feminist scholar whose efforts helped shape feminist movements around the world.

Ann's memoir, Visitors: An American Feminist in East-Central Europe, describes her work as part of the Network of East-West Women, building an international feminist movement after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Interview of A Man of the Theater Author
Nasser Rahmaninejad's A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran shares Nasser's dramatic personal story of directing theater productions during the tyranny of two dictatorships—under the Shah and during the Iranian Revolution.

“Throughout the book, Rahmaninejad’s storytelling voice is clear: impassioned, ironic, learned, elegant, and subtle. This is a story of resistance under conditions of intense repression, and of the power of art to change society.” —Andy Boyd
The Never Ending Fight for Disability Rights
In August, Thrive Global published an interview with Nadina LaSpina, author of Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride (now available as an audiobook).

Read the interview for Nadina's thoughts on disability rights activism and ableism.
Hulu Show on New Village Author
Hulu's Woke, starring Lamorne Morris as Keef, premieres September 9th.The series is based on the life and work of nationally syndicated cartoonist Keith Knight. Keith, who is the illustrator and coauthor of the Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, developed and co-produced the TV series.
More Updates

The Prison Music Project’s album Long Time Gone, features songs created collaboratively between Zoe Boekbinder, Ani DiFranco, and incarcerated artists. Two songs on the album include lyrics from Spoon Jackson, co-author of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives.

Watch the new music video for the title track on YouTube.
Purchase By Heart and Long Time Gone here. Proceeds go to communities impacted by mass incarceration.

E&U is an environment and urban studies journal that seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world. Read the book note on Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer's Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities.
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Changing How Scholars Teach about the Vietnam War
Ron Carver, coauthor of Waging Peace in Vietnam has created a rich educational website for the book and companion exhibit about military dissent and resistance during the American war in Vietnam. The site includes curriculum, bibliography, videos, poetry, and more about the history of the peace movement to end the war. This September we are offering the book at a 30% discount—use code PEACE30 at the link below.

The Truth Tellers blog, which is also the title of a forthcoming documentary film about the work of artist Robert Shetterly, featured a tribute to John Lewis with Shetterly's portrait of him.

John Lewis will be one of nearly fifty truth tellers that Shetterly profiles in the illustrated social justice volume of the Americans Who Tell The Truth book series—in development now for 2021 publication with New Village!
"Some of the most creative and courageous geniuses of a generation: scientists, artists, ecologists, whistleblowers, booksellers, socialists, anarchists, philosophers, internationalists, healers, activists all. . . . In the Company of Rebels is one of the most profoundly moving books I've read in years."
—Margaret Randall

The cover photo of Chellis Glendinning's memoir shows a peaceful protestor at People's Park Berkeley in 1969, surrounded by National Guard sent by California's then governor Ronald Reagan. This unnecessary deployment of armed troops to remove civic protest parallels events of 2020.