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Time Is Tight by Booker T. Jones
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Booker T. Jones

MEMPHIS—April 4, 1968—6 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a man who believed in education. He understood that racism was an encumbrance on the entire human race. He came to ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians October 31,2019 )
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Jaquira Díaz

The French woman. She was there before I swallowed the first pill. And she would be there always. But all I really knew about her was that she jumped. Later, ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino October 30,2019 )
Unsung America by Prerna Lal
epub |eng | 2019-09-28 | Author:Prerna Lal [Lal, Prerna]

The New Age of Resistance Thousands of immigrants in the United States woke up to a new political reality on November 9, 2016: Donald Trump, the most rabidly anti-immigrant, white ...
( Category: Asian October 27,2019 )
De-Bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley by Raj Jayadev & Jean Melesaine
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Raj Jayadev & Jean Melesaine [Jayadev, Raj & Melesaine, Jean]

( Category: Native American October 19,2019 )
Tough Love by Susan Rice
epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Susan Rice

The postelection euphoria was short lived. In the six months after the vote leading up to official independence, the many issues that remained unresolved between north and south again came ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents October 10,2019 )
My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet
epub |eng | | Author:Jennine Capó Crucet

* * * One morning, I snuck cookies from the previous night’s dinner into my saddlebag for that day’s ride: The six hours a day on a horse turned out ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies October 8,2019 )
Thunder Through My Veins by Gregory Scofield
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Gregory Scofield

14 A Light in My Heart • • THE NEXT MORNING as Mom and I drove into Vancouver, an unsettling silence stood between us. I felt as if I was ...
( Category: Short Stories October 8,2019 )
The Nazis- a Warning From History by Laurence Rees
epub |eng | 2002-05-02 | Author:Laurence Rees [Rees, Laurence]

7 THE TIDE TURNS 1942 WAS A year of transformation on the Eastern Front. At the start of it the Red Army was grappling with the Germans at the gates ...
( Category: Fascism October 7,2019 )
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas by Corey Robin
epub |eng | | Author:Corey Robin

* * * IF IT WASN’T clear to everyone at the time, it’s since become clear that Thomas lied to the Judiciary Committee when he stated that he never sexually ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism October 5,2019 )
Where I Come From by Aaron Sanchez
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:Aaron Sanchez

CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIVING THE DREAM After I left Isla, I decided to dial it back a bit. I had been approached about doing some consulting in the past, but I ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino October 3,2019 )
Renia's Diary by Renia Spiegel
epub |eng | | Author:Renia Spiegel

OCTOBER 10, 1941, FRIDAY17 It’s so sad at home. Today the piano was taken away, so the flat is empty; today Arianka went to Mama, so the soul is empty. ...
( Category: Jewish October 3,2019 )
Voices of Cherokee Women by Carolyn Ross Johnston
epub |eng | 2013-08-09 | Author:Carolyn Ross Johnston

ENDNOTES 1 Ella Coody Robinson, Interview 13833, vol. 77, Muskogee, Okla., May 6, 1938, 94–127, Indian Pioneer Papers, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. The following letters between ...
( Category: Native American Studies September 24,2019 )
Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Doris Payne

Chapter 14 Going International THE ASSASSINATIONS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy put the nation into a state of collective mourning. Nothing made sense anymore. And ...
( Category: African-American & Black September 24,2019 )
A State at Any Cost by Segev Tom;
epub |eng | | Author:Segev, Tom; [Segev, Tom]

“OFFENSIVE DEFENSE” It was a relatively quiet year; tensions between Arabs and Jews centered largely on criminal violations. The day after the UN decision, at about the same time that ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 23,2019 )
A Voice for Veronica: The story of Veronica Knight, the first victim in the Truro murders in South Australia by Jeanette Woods
epub |eng | | Author:Jeanette Woods [Woods, Jeanette]

Justice Matheson then summed up the case and warned the jury about the effect of their emotions on their decision – which was immediately illustrated by an emotional outburst by ...
( Category: Australian September 20,2019 )

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