August
18
2018
Featured Event
October
11
2018
“The Dark Shadow of Tech on the S.F. Bay Area”
An amazingly timely discussion by experts: Cary McClelland, author of “Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley + Richard A. Walker, author of “Pictures of a Gone city: Tech and The Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area." Hosted by Sasha Lilley.
September
6
2018
MIKO PELED – The General’s Son: Journal of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five
“This is a brilliantly rendered father and son saga amidst a background that evokes Greek mythology. .. is a story of admiration and anger.” —Sy Hersh
October
16
2018
D.D. Guttenplan & Michael Lerner – The Next Republic: The Rise of a Radical New Majority
Exactly who are the new progressive leaders emerging to lead the post-Trump return to democracy in America? National political correspondent D.D. Guttenplan’s The Next Republic is an extraordinarily intense and wide-ranging history of the recent fall and incipient rise of democracy in America.
August
30
2018
JOAN MORGAN – She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
“Here comes Lauryn, slaying in double time and flipping her own respectability politics on its head. She’s that L-Boogie effortless sexy that became her trademark: wedge-heeled platforms, thigh-high miniskirt with matching spaghetti-strapped tee… “
September
12
2018
CHRIS HEDGES
America, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering, upsetting portrait of our country as it is, not as we wish it to be. The road to taking our country begins with recognizing it for what it is.
October
18
2018
ALICE WALKER
Alice Walker, the author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Novel, The Color Purple, now offers us seventy poems ranging from personal self-inquiry into the liberating world of activism, love, hope, and gratitude.
August
5
2018
Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
Femi Kuti and his band The Positive Force are at the heart and soul of modern Afrobeat. Femi’s father, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, created the style—a blend of traditional Nigerian drum patterns, the smooth groove of highlife and American soul, funk and R&B—and took it to the world, inspiring people with insistent dance beats and lyrics bristling with political statements.
July
15
2018
Anoushka Shankar
With Han Han
July
28
2018
