The New Press 2021 Social Justice Awards Gala

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 how we see the world.
The New Press will honor Kimberlé Crenshaw for her paradigm-shifting contributions to Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) for his efforts to uphold the rule of law, at The Social Justice Awards Gala on November 9, 2021, in New York City.
Past Social Justice Award recipients have included Alice Walker, Bryan Stevenson, Joseph Stiglitz, Anna Deavere Smith, Toni Morrison, Harry Belafonte, Sherrilyn Ifill, Pete Seeger, and Charles M. Blow, among others.