Títulos en Activistas

I valori più semplici e umani della Resistenza restano per sempre impressi in un grande classico della memorialistica storica italiana, "I miei sette figli", un audiolibro che, attraverso l'emozionante voce narrante del papà Alcide, ripercorre la tragica vicenda dei sette fratelli Cervi, fucilati per la loro attività antifascista al Poligono di Reggio Emilia il 28 dicembre 1943.

Un crocevia di episodi fantastici, avventurosi, alcuni assurdi. L'America Latina racchiude universi molto diversi tra loro che hanno in comune la magia di racconti unici. In "Altramerica", Filippo Femia racconterà queste storie di vita attraverso la voce dei protagonisti. Persone comuni che a volte hanno incrociato la Storia con la S maiuscola. Ogni episodio un Paese, per un viaggio che dal muro al confine Stati Uniti-Messico arriva fino alla Tierra del Fuego.

Ogni lunedì, chiacchiere sull'Occidente: così Mattia Feltri aprirà una finestra sui dibattiti culturali e politici dell'Italia, incurante dei confini geografici e delle maglie strette dell'attualità. Spunti, riflessioni, vecchi libri e nuove fonti per una cavalcata intellettuale che si annuncia appassionante.

Un crocevia di episodi fantastici, avventurosi, alcuni assurdi. L'America Latina racchiude universi molto diversi tra loro che hanno in comune la magia di racconti unici. In "Altramerica", Filippo Femia racconterà queste storie di vita attraverso la voce dei protagonisti. Persone comuni che a volte hanno incrociato la Storia con la S maiuscola. Ogni episodio un Paese, per un viaggio che dal muro al confine Stati Uniti-Messico arriva fino alla Tierra del Fuego.

Un crocevia di episodi fantastici, avventurosi, alcuni assurdi. L'America Latina racchiude universi molto diversi tra loro che hanno in comune la magia di racconti unici. In "Altramerica", Filippo Femia racconterà queste storie di vita attraverso la voce dei protagonisti. Persone comuni che a volte hanno incrociato la Storia con la S maiuscola. Ogni episodio un Paese, per un viaggio che dal muro al confine Stati Uniti-Messico arriva fino alla Tierra del Fuego.

What are you going to do for the rest of your life? For David Lawrence, Jr., a brilliant newspaper editor and publisher with a distinguished, three-decade-long journalism career who retired in 1999 at the age of 56, the answer in his words was to dedicate his life to a "[N]ewly energized purposefulness: that every child have a real chance to succeed."

For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.

Using exclusive interviews with Suu Kyi since her release from 15 years of house arrest, as well as recently disclosed diplomatic cables, Pederson uncovers new facets to Suu Kyi's extraordinary story. The Burma Spring also reveals the extraordinary steps taken by First Lady Laura Bush to help Suu Kyi, as well as how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton injected new momentum into Burma's democratic rebirth.

Nel gennaio 2017, in uno dei suoi ultimi atti esecutivi come presidente degli Stati Uniti, Barack Obama concesse la grazia a Chelsea Manning. Imputata con 22 capi d'accusa, Manning avrebbe dovuto affrontare ancora una pena di ventotto anni di reclusione per aver svelato a WikiLeaks documenti diplomatici e militari confidenziali del governo degli Stati Uniti.

La biografia dedicata all'uomo che più di ogni altro negli Stati Uniti ha contribuito a difendere e sostenere i diritti umani nei confronti delle minoranze emarginate e discriminate: Martin Luther King. Riconosciuto in maniera unanime come eroe instancabile della resistenza non violenta, difensore tenace della libertà e dell'uguaglianza, avversario risoluto del pregiudizio razziale, Martin Luther King si è sempre esposto in prima linea predicando l'amore e la pace, sognando un mondo migliore.

Il nome di Edward Snowden è uscito alla ribalta nei media nel giugno 2013, in seguito ad alcune sue dichiarazioni circa le azioni di spionaggio del governo americano nei confronti dei suoi cittadini. Subito associato a un eroe da quella parte di popolazione che lotta per la libertà di pensiero, la privacy e la democrazia, Snowden ha iniziato a fuggire di Paese in Paese, cercando di evitare la rappresaglia del governo americano.

Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine then to crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a Black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over 15 years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction.

Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view.

In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Salaita's employment was terminated in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government's summer assault on Gaza. Salaita's firing generated a huge public outcry, with thousands petitioning for his reinstatement, and more than 5,000 scholars pledging to boycott UIUC.

In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the nursing and retirement-home business. Though he was ultimately successful in his business ventures, Jolly faced both overt and covert discrimination, which led him into social activism.

In Mandela, former foreign correspondent Bob Crew demystifies the icon and his legacy. After over a decade of travels in South Africa, Crew seeks truth in the unexpected details of the lives of Mandela and current South African president Jacob Zuma, comparing them to other world icons in order to bring a new understanding of their legacies to Western listeners.

A riveting memoir of the first Israeli-born Jewish American to be sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a closed Arab society. A good memoir is a survivor's tale - the story of a person who has faced obstacles and made it through well enough to tell it. Dalya Cohen-Mor, a Sabra-born American woman, volunteered to serve in the Peace Corps, went through a lengthy and highly competitive application process, was accepted, and was sent to serve in the predominantly Palestinian country of Jordan.

Born in Hamburg in the 1930s, Marione Ingram fled Nazi Germany only to find racism as pervasive in the American South as anti-Semitism was in Europe. As a white woman and a Holocaust refugee, Marione was the most unlikely of heroes in the fight for civil rights for African Americans. This is her empowering story - a tale of courage, strength, and determination.

David Wojnarowicz's brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to a squalid life on the streets of New York City, to fame - and infamy - as an activist and controversial visual artist whose work was lambasted in the halls of Congress, all before his early death from AIDS at age thirty-seven, Wojnarowicz seemed to be at war with a homophobic "establishment" and the world itself. Yet what emerged from the darkness was a truly extraordinary artist and human being.

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn't even the one diagnosed with it. My brother's name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever received. And one of the most challenging.