Every year, there are more than 1.5 million drug arrests in the United States. More than 80% of these arrests are for possession only. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have already decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, and some are exploring the merits of decriminalizing other drugs. The opioid crisis has jump-started the conversation on the best approach to drug use across the country, including in Maryland.

In FREE GIFTS, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been.

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.

Finance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

Join the Enoch Pratt Free Library's 2025-2026 Hackerman Writer in Residence, poet Taylor Johnson, for a poetry-writing workshop. Registration is required.

Join the folks behind Bmore Zine Fest for a special art market. Vendors welcome at no fee!

A tongue-in-cheek analysis of the communication strategies used to obstruct social justice movements.

A compelling urban history, LET US ALONE uses voices from all levels of society to examine police power, incarceration, and the perils of being Black in post–Civil War Baltimore.

A CITY DREAM celebrates youth-led community action in the face of disinvestment and urban blight.

The fight against low-wage Black women’s housing precarity.

When a mid-life couple finds an old farm that promises refuge from hectic lives and encroaching illness, their world opens up to unexpected adventures: breeding heritage goats, hogs, and cattle; managing a half-dozen large guardian dogs; dealing with barn fires, rapacious logging, and the death of treasured animals.

CHARRAS is the true story of Efraín “El Charras” Calderón Lara, a twenty-six-year-old union leader and student activist, and the Yucatecan government’s successful plot to kidnap and murder him.

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents.

C. G. Beck examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.”

Bestselling author and advocate Dr. Monique Couvson makes a compelling, passionate case for why we should invest in girls’ unlimited potential.

A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and a radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.

Join Red Emma's as we celebrate this much needed and truly groundbreaking anthology centering the histories and intellectual contributions of Travestis and Trans Women scholars and activists from Latin America.

Do you like zines or supporting independent artists? Are you interested in learning how to play tabletop miniature games?

Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden is the story of a young Palestinian girl and her Jiddo—her Grandpa! A Sunday morning events for kids of all ages!

When Cassandra, a Haitian-American influencer raised far from her roots, moves to Cap-Haïtien to take over her late grandmother's deteriorating hotel, she expects to renovate a building, not her entire sense of self.