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Supporters heard post-election thoughts from some of the country’s leading thinkers, first in a large group, and then in small break-out rooms to be in conversation with a chosen featured guest. We know that late November was a complex moment, and The New Press is proud to have brought exclusive, personalized, up to the minute analysis into your home. Our featured guests included former ACLU Le...

The 2022 New Press Social Justice Awards Gala honored Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones (for her insightful social and historical analysis), and one of the nation’s great civic-minded lawyers, Frederick A.O. ‘‘Fritz’’ Schwarz Jr. (for his civic leadership and unwavering commitment to democracy and government accountability). This video features the awards cerem...

The New Press Social Justice Awards offer a pause from the busy publishing work we do year-round as we honor important champions of social justice and recognize their contributions to equity, inclusion, and justice. As an independent, public-interest publisher, our mission is to publish authors overlooked by corporate publishers, cultivate critical new voices, and mainstream ideas that reframe ...

It’s Double Trouble for Reformism as author/activists Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg (CARCERAL CON: THE DECEPTIVE TERRAIN OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM) & Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law (PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME: THE HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF POPULAR REFORM) join moderator Andrea J. Ritchie to show how reformism expands criminalization, policing, punishment, and surveillance-and how we can fight ...

Join The New Press, Seminary Co-op, and Arise Chicago for a discussion of ON THE JOB: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WORKER CENTERS AND THE NEW FIGHT FOR WAGES, DIGNITY, AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Jane M. Von Bergen and Celeste Monforton's groundbreaking new book is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country’s most vulnerable-but essential-work...

Watch Kimberlé Crenshaw together with Devon Carbado in a fascinating conversation with Laura Flanders, filmed live at Union Chapel in Martha’s Vineyard on August 24, 2021. In recent months, lawmakers in over two dozen states have attempted to censor teachers from discussing racism, sexism, and issues of equality and justice. The continuing attempts to gag anti-racist education and training have...