In “Yippie Girl: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI,” Judy Gumbo reveals just how Jewish the Youth International Party was, both in terms of its membership and tactics.

The decision to cast a Black actor in the role of the non-Jewish interloper plays into harmful assumptions about who does and does not belong in Jewish spaces.

Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto, the protagonist of Berkeley-raised author Claire Stanford’s debut novel, works at the San Francisco headquarters of “the third-most-popular internet company.”

Downes has been using her platform to expose listeners accustomed to the standard classical fare — concertos and sonatas by mostly white, male and European composers — to more pieces by women and people of color.