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The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

Ian Rosenberg offers a user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States.

“A deep dive into 10 precedent-setting legal actions that helped define the scope—and limits—of the First Amendment … Essential reading for journalists, political activists, and ordinary citizens alike.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred

Learn your rights

42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

In this new collection, 13 distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars explore Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy.

“These pieces embody all of what made Robinson special, assessing him through many different lenses … [They] give a towering cultural figure his due beyond the baselines.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred

Discover his legacy

Avidly Reads Passages

In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what prevents so many Black Americans from moving or being moved.

Read Avidly. Think Boldly.