A Special Edition of A.C.T.O.R.: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, Reading and Conversation with Author and Filmmaker Vivek BaldClick here for more information about the book and film! In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered (more…)

Author Event: Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World ?Here it is at last, a thorough, fluent, and engaging biographical study of Cyrus the Great. Students will find this book indispensable for its clear narrative and scholars will profit from its rich source materials, while casual readers will find much to enjoy as they (more…)

Phaedra Parks of the Real Housewives ATL signs and discusses Secrets of the Southern Belle: How to Be Nice, Work Hard, Look Pretty, Have Fun, and Never Have an Off MomentPhaedra Parks, breakout star of Bravo?s massively popular The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is known for   her law career, happy home life, and for being (more…)

Busboys and Poets Books welcomes author Mirta Ojito to sign and discuss Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town ?An account that is as unflinching as it is important. Both an incisive reconstruction of a heartbreaking   murder and an unsparing diagnosis of a national malady . . . with HUNTING SEASON Ojito has (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Editors Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel plus contributors Marc Lynch and Radwan Ziadeh to discuss and sign the new book, The Syria Dilemma The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to predict. The Syrian conflict has (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Peter Levine to discuss and sign his book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them.  Peter Levine’s We Are the (more…)

Zunar is Malaysian political cartoonist. He uses his drawing pen as a weapon to fight state corruption and abuse of power.  He was arrested and detained under the Sedition Act, seven of his cartoon books had been banned by the government, his office has been raided twice, the printing factories are constantly raided and vendors (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Bookstoreat Busboys and Poets welcomes Susan Carle to discuss and sign her new book,Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 Since its founding in 1910–the same year as another national organization devoted to the economic and social welfare aspects of race advancement, the National Urban League–the NAACP has been viewed as the vanguard national (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Bookstore at Busboys and Poets welcomes Retha Powers editor of the new book,Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations: 5000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices around the World  A comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.BARTLETT’S FAMILIAR BLACK QUOTATIONS paints a rich (more…)

Bring a date and join us for a book reading of Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex & Intimacy with authors John Austin and Ify Okoye. On the heels of the groundbreaking collection “Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women”, comes the other side of the story. In this book, (more…)

Teaching for Change’s Bookstore at Busboys and Poets  welcomes Junius Williams to discuss and sign his new book, Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power Unfinished Agenda  offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing (more…)

Join us for a discussion about how the civil rights movement of the 20th  continues to shape our definition of ?civil rights? today. Our featured speaker: Robert  Patterson, will discuss his book: Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African  American Literature and Culture (Publisher: University of Virginia Press, November 29,  2013) Patterson explores the (more…)