Haymarket Books

A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife of slavery.In 1841, the only successful, large-scale revolt of American-born enslaved people erupted on...

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six is firsthand journalism of struggles for justice and liberation in New Orleans. The book weaves together the stories of queer rappers, immigrant organizers, public housing residents,...

“Nowhere near famous but still infamous,” Psalm One is a legend to rap nerds, scholars, and “heads,” and has gone on to work with the brightest names in rap and have her work celebrated and taught around the globe. In Her Word Is Bond, Psalm One tells...

An Appalachian organizer’s excavation of the past, her own and her people’s, to spark a collective fight for a future where we all have what we need and deserveIn Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian...

In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means—and how we take steps to get there.“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and sick makes you...