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Foxy: My Life in Three Acts by Pam Grier
mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Pam Grier [Grier, Pam]

CHAPTER 20 Fame and Relationships Freddie and I were getting amazingly close, and I considered marrying him—not that he had asked. We had become inseparable when we were in the ...
( Category: Women January 24,2016 )
African American Doctors of World War I by W. Douglas Fisher
epub |eng | 2015-12-16 | Author:W. Douglas Fisher

Dr. George I. Lythcott (courtesy Michael J. Lythcott). The Lythcott brothers arrived after the riots, but the city’s stigma was there. Many other professional African Americans had left Tulsa by ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 22,2016 )
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Malcolm X

CHAPTER 14 BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine—some months before Brother Johnson Hinton’s case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us—a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then living ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 21,2016 )
A Piece of Cake: A Memoir by Cupcake Brown
epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Cupcake Brown [Brown, Cupcake]

36 AROUND THIS TIME, I discovered ready rock. Ready rock is best described as “freebasin’ to go.” Prior to ready rock, a buyer had to take the powdered coke home ...
( Category: African-American & Black January 14,2016 )
The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
mobi |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Simon Winchester

Mao Zedong was a very considerable poet – in output, if not always in quality – and he was prone to memorialize what he regarded as his greater achievements with ...
( Category: General January 13,2016 )
Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave
epub |eng | 2009-06-21 | Author:Timothy Conigrave

The Next Three Years The next three years were about acting school. Gruelling days followed by homework: writing diaries for voice and movement, practising dialects, creating movement pieces, working on ...
( Category: Australian January 11,2016 )
The Great White Hopes by Graeme Kent
epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Graeme Kent

The first semi-official gathering of some of the White Hopes occurred on 11 May 1911 at the National Sporting Club in New York. Promoter Tom O’Rourke announced that, in order ...
( Category: Boxing January 8,2016 )
Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest by Ed Webster
epub |eng | 2014-04-21 | Author:Ed Webster [Webster, Ed]

Now there was no choice: the support team had to leave for home tomorrow without reaching Base Camp, or for that matter, without even seeing the Kangshung Face. They were ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
Sugar Daddy: Diary of a Mistress by Madison Blu
epub |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Madison Blu [Blu, Madison]

Chapter Six Sugar Daddy While I was packing, I remembered to pack the toys we bought. I started wrapping the dildos in a long silk scarf that I had and ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 2,2016 )
Latino Americans by Ray Suarez
epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Ray Suarez

• • • IN 1957, PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein dusted off the old love-across-ethnic-barriers idea for a new Broadway musical. This one would not have a “we’re ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 29,2015 )
Ada BlackJack by Jennifer Niven
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Niven

* * * McMinnville, Oreg. Aug. 8, 1923 Mr. H. Galle Newbraunfels, Texas.; Dear Sir; You will note that the boys are supposed to be alive and I feel that ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal December 21,2015 )
The Auschwitz Kommandant by Barbara Cherish
epub |eng | 2010-12-17 | Author:Barbara Cherish [Barbara U. Cherish]

Childhood fantasies and Stories told Were of Angels and Cherubs to behold, These Angelic forms with extended wings Forever back to my childhood brings, These words still echo, so few ...
( Category: Fascism December 18,2015 )
At Home in Japan by Rebecca Otowa
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca Otowa

For Japanese people, the time of the cherry blossoms is evocative of new beginnings in all walks of life. Children in brand new school uniforms and gleaming bags walk on ...
( Category: General December 14,2015 )
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase
mobi |eng | 1992-12-31 | Author:Jean-Claude Baker & Chris Chase [Baker, Jean-Claude & Chase, Chris]

Chapter 29 JOSEPHINE, HEROINE OF THE RESISTANCE “That German cow in my blue satin sheets!” If Hitler hadn’t cast out blacks along with Jews, might Josephine have stayed on in ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 12,2015 )
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers by Ishmael Reed
epub |eng | 2010-07-22 | Author:Ishmael Reed [Reed, Ishmael]

A Tale of Two Callahans The Irish Black Thing10 (Dr. Nancy Mercado complains about the media confusing Mexican Americans with Puerto Ricans. Pakistani-American characters in Wajahat Ali’s play, The Domestic ...
( Category: African-American Studies December 4,2015 )

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