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The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett by James W. Johnson
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:James W. Johnson [Johnson, James W.]

19 The Negro League Years “The plate is the same width. The bases are the same—ninety feet apart. I’ve got to make good.” —Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was fed up ...
( Category: Regional U.S October 23,2018 )
A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande
epub |eng | | Author:Reyna Grande

When they learned that I had some experience dancing folklórico, the Latino teachers asked me to volunteer after school to get the students ready to perform a few dances for ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 23,2018 )
Jailbreak out of History: the re-biography of Harriet Tubman by Lee Butch
epub |eng | 2013-12-24 | Author:Lee, Butch [Lee, Butch]

To Brown and Delany, women were still the led, the governed. That Dr. Martin Delany himself envisioned a male ruling class is clear. As he said in his famous slogan: ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 23,2018 )
Advice for Future Corpses_and Those Who Love Them by Sallie Tisdale
epub |eng | 2018-05-18 | Author:Sallie Tisdale

Hello, caregiver: you are so tired. You need time to be alone, even if it’s just in a corner of the house where you can rest, or a chance to ...
( Category: Death & Grief October 22,2018 )
The Lyncher in Me by Warren Read
epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Warren Read

My great-grandfather Louis (left) and my grandfather Ray (right) with their workhorse team, Buster and Bob, in about 1946 My grandmother Margaret, my mother, and my grandfather Ray in 1950. ...
( Category: Sociology October 21,2018 )
Buffy Sainte-Marie by Andrea Warner
epub |eng | 2018-10-17 | Author:Andrea Warner

CHAPTER 11 GENERATION IN 1975, SESAME STREET had only been on the air six years, but already it had revolutionized children’s television and was considered a cultural institution. From the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2018 )
An Unlikely Journey by Julian Castro
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Julian Castro

Chapter Eight I knew a classmate at Stanford whose mom worked at the White House, and she suggested that students apply for a summer internship there. Joaquin and I filled ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 16,2018 )
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
epub |eng | | Author:David W. Blight

Much later, in Life and Times, Douglass gave this moment a special personal meaning: “I had resided long in Rochester and had made many speeches there which had more or ...
( Category: Historical October 16,2018 )
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
epub |eng | | Author:Kiese Laymon

DISASTER When you came home for your Christmas break, you looked at me, shook your head, and asked, “What are you doing to yourself?” You made me get on the ...
( Category: Memoirs October 16,2018 )
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson & Ilana Glazer
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Phoebe Robinson & Ilana Glazer

Non-Trash Moment of My Life #3: Figuring Out the Tip at a Restaurant . . . Without the Help of a Calculator Real talk, whenever I do that, I feel ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 16,2018 )
We Can't Breathe by Jabari Asim
epub |eng | | Author:Jabari Asim

All worship the Wall. —Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Wall” BRICK RELICS My wife, Liana, and I were driving through Medford, Massachusetts, on our way back to our home just outside Boston. ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 16,2018 )
Miles & Me by Quincy Troupe
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Quincy Troupe

sending our regrets The Tutu video party reminds me of the annual birthday parties that Miles would throw for himself and a few friends at some great restaurant in Los ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 16,2018 )
Assata by Assata Shakur
epub |eng | 2012-06-23 | Author:Assata Shakur

Chapter 9 I was taken to Roosevelt Hospital in Metuchen, new jersey, and shackled to the bed by my foot. Dr. Garrett had established that i was one month pregnant. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National October 15,2018 )
Driven from Within by Michael Jordan & MARK VANCIL
epub |eng | 2005-10-12 | Author:Michael Jordan & MARK VANCIL

MOM I remember when the Bulls starting winning championships, and the press started saying that Michael wasn’t being paid enough money. I would tell him that his word was his ...
( Category: Photography & Video October 13,2018 )
The Red Guard by The Red Guard (fb2)
epub |eng | | Author:The Red Guard (fb2)

Chapter 6 They remained in their luxurious hole for three days. During this time they ate when they pleased, slept when they pleased, made love when they pleased — and ...
( Category: Asia October 12,2018 )

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