“Beacon Broadside”
Author/Editor: jbennett
Category: Publishing
About “Beacon Broadside”
Profession: Editor
location: Boston, MA
Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press, is a forum for essays, news items, and dispatches from Beacon authors, authors who serve as advisors or friends of the house, staff and others. The blog is also a forum for discussion, with all posts open for comments by readers. The mission of Beacon Press is to affirm and promote these principles: the inherent worth and dignity of every person; justice, equity and compassion in human relations; acceptance of one another; a free and responsible search for truth and meaning; the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process in society; the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; respect for the interdependent web of all existence; and the importance of literature and the arts in democratic life. To these ends, Beacon has published countless acclaimed and ground-breaking works by authors including James Baldwin, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baker Miller, Mary Daly, Marian Wright Edelman, Cornel West, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Rashid Khalidi, and Mary Oliver, among many others. You can read more about the history of Beacon Press here. The mission of Beacon Broadside is to extend this tradition of thought-provoking, fearless publishing beyond the realm of traditional publishing and to reach out to a new community of socially conscious readers. We encourage readers to comment on and link to our posts to become part of our ongoing conversation with some of the best writers of our time.
Favorite Authors
Meredith Hall, Kai Wright, Philip Winslow, Aidan Delgado, Katherine Newman, Howard Zinn, William Ayers, Kevin Jennings, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Laila Halaby, Rashid Khalidi, Eboo Patel, Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister, Viktor Frankl, Mary Oliver, Henry Louis Gates
Favorite Topics
Social Justice, Free Speech, LGBT Civil Rights, Liberal Religion, Unitarian Universalism, Politics, Human Rights
Latest Entries at “Beacon Broadside”
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- » A Tree Grows For Shirley
- » Bloody Foundation for U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
- » Thinking Critically and Finding Answers: The Benefits of Arts Education
- » Monday Link Roundup: Bill Ayers and Stanley Fish, SCOTUS, YouTube
- » Wal-Mart Takes Greenwashing to a New Level
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