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Mayor: The Best Job in Politics by Michael A. Nutter
epub |eng | 2018-01-03 | Author:Michael A. Nutter [Nutter, Michael A.]

In this mayor’s job you get to do some fun things—and you must do some heart-wrenching things. Within the scope of five weeks during my first months as mayor, I ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Will D. Campbell [Campbell, Will D.]

EVENING If blue skies, lenient summer temperature, and an unruffling breeze moving in rhythmic and welcome spurts off the Louisiana Gulf make for beauty, then the day after my thirty-fifth ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 19,2020 )
Gershom Scholem by David Biale
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:David Biale [Biale, David]

7 Kabbalah and Catastrophe BY 1937, Scholem’s personal life had regained stability, his marriage to Fania providing him with an intellectual and domestic helpmeet. But the situation in Germany continued ...
( Category: Kabbalah & Mysticism January 19,2020 )
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Maxine Gordon [Gordon, Maxine]

Octobre 19–65 Hotel Royale Bruxelles Belge Alfred, I forgot to mention, in my last letter, about the recording to be made at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Oct 29–31. As you ...
( Category: Jazz January 19,2020 )
The Exile's Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World by Sally McKee
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Sally McKee [McKee, Sally]

( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
The New Negro by Jeffrey C. Stewart
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Jeffrey C. Stewart

Here Locke put his foot down. “Let’s leave them out of this issue,” he wrote on February 17. “There is no use bringing in through the back-door what we have ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 19,2020 )
The Pitcher and the Dictator by Averell "Ace" Smith
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Averell "Ace" Smith [Smith, Averell Ace]

Dr. Aybar took out his folded speech, which had been sitting in his pocket for nearly two weeks, and read it aloud: “We have gone to the Honorable President Trujillo ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 19,2020 )
Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

THE MILWAUKEE WAY While HUD-FHA offices in Detroit were being applauded for their heavy use of low-income homeownership programs, Lawrence Katz, who had directed the FHA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
Radical Heart. by Shireen. Morris
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Shireen. Morris [Morris, Shireen.]

On 11 September, Noel launched his Quarterly Essay, A Rightful Place, at the Sydney Opera House and floated publicly, for the first time, his shift in position. It was big ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
The President's Kitchen Cabinet by Adrian Miller
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Adrian Miller

Paula Patton-Moutsos, White House assistant chef, 2003. Courtesy George W. Bush Presidential Center. Zephyr Wright’s tenure marked the zenith of African American influence in the White House kitchen. When Jacqueline ...
( Category: Ethnic & National January 19,2020 )
Genius and Anxiety by Norman Lebrecht
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Norman Lebrecht

An elusive Jewish sound: George Gershwin paints Arnold Schoenberg, 1936. ‌Nine 1911 Blues ’n’ Jews One sweltering summer’s afternoon on a brownstone stoop in the Bronx or Harlem, a bunch ...
( Category: Jewish January 18,2020 )
Driven Out by Jean Pfaelzer
epub |eng | 2007-05-28 | Author:Jean Pfaelzer

6 THE CHINESE REWRITE THE LETTER OF THE LAW On the morning of January 21, 1886, Deputy U.S. Marshal B. J. Alerman boarded a steamship in San Francisco and sailed ...
( Category: Asian American Studies January 18,2020 )
The Collector by J Michael Best
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J Michael Best

I feel the fish scales again, right over the hole for the drain, but for whatever reason I can’t pull it out. I feel around some more. The water is ...
( Category: Graphic Design January 18,2020 )
Finding Martha's Vineyard by Jill Nelson
epub |eng | 2019-01-21 | Author:Jill Nelson [Nelson, Jill]

Adelaide Cromwell worked very hard, had his own business, and had probably seen enough of the island; like the men who were in the war and their wife wants to ...
( Category: United States January 18,2020 )
Negro with a Hat by Colin Grant
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Colin Grant [Grant, Colin]

12 LAST STOP LIBERIA It is certainly better for American Negroes to die of African fever in the efforts to contribute to Africa’s development, than to be riddled by the ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 18,2020 )

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