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Reach (Ben Jealous) by Ben Jealous
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Ben Jealous

Rashid Shabazz AGE: 40 TITLE: Vice President of Communications, Campaign for Black Male Achievement COMMUNITY: Brooklyn, NY Language is everything. One of the first things you do as a parent ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence July 4,2018 )
Uncensored by Zachary R. Wood
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Zachary R. Wood

* * * — In school, my academic focus was mostly on writing. That year, the author Reginald Dwayne Betts came to Bullis as a writer in residence. Dwayne had ...
( Category: Memoirs June 29,2018 )
My Life by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

X Two days later she sent me to Dubetchnya and I was unutterably delighted to go. As I walked towards the station and afterwards, as I was sitting in the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 26,2018 )
The Art of Cycling by Cadel Evans
epub |eng | 2016-09-30 | Author:Cadel Evans

IN APRIL I RIDE the Tour of the Basque Country and finish fourth overall on GC. A week later I head down to the Mapei centre to see Aldo. I’m ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 23,2018 )
Night by Wiesel Elie && Wiesel Marion
mobi |eng | 2006-05-25 | Author:Wiesel, Elie && Wiesel, Marion [Wiesel, Elie & Wiesel, Marion]

Unknown there was still time. We decided that if we were allowed to live until the Liberation, we would not stay another day in Europe. We would board the first ...
( Category: World June 20,2018 )
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly by Jennifer Fleischner
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jennifer Fleischner

CHAPTER NINE On the morning after the inauguration, a dispatch from Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter, informing President Lincoln that the garrison’s supplies were nearly depleted, lay on the ...
( Category: World June 19,2018 )
Long Way Back to the River Kwai by Loet Velmans
epub |nld | 2003-06-16 | Author:Loet Velmans

5 Death Camp WE HAD WALKED EIGHTY-SIX MILES but were put to work as soon as we arrived. First, we finished the construction of our huts, made of bamboo and ...
( Category: Military June 16,2018 )
To Tell the Truth Freely by Mia Bay
epub |eng | 2009-06-13 | Author:Mia Bay

Two ladies are represented sitting under a tree at Reigate, and, after some preliminary remarks on the terrible subject of lynching, Miss Willard laughingly replies by cracking a joke. And ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 13,2018 )
The Man Who Stole Himself by Gisli Palsson
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Gisli Palsson [Palsson, Gisli]

EBENEZER HENDERSON The Scottish minister Ebenezer Henderson (1784–1858) met Hans Jonathan in 1814. Henderson spent much of his career with the British and Foreign Bible Society, traveling widely and distributing ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 11,2018 )
Journeying by Claudio Magris
epub |eng | 2018-06-09 | Author:Claudio Magris

ISTRIAN SPRING In Pula, two hundred yards from the Roman Arena, Guido Miglia shows me his aunt Catineta’s house, where at Easter he would go to eat pinza, the delicate ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 9,2018 )
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (Vintage International) by Oscar Zeta Acosta
azw3 |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Oscar Zeta Acosta

9 All through grammar school my old man had said to me, “You do what I say until you’re fourteen. That’s when I left home and started taking care of ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics June 8,2018 )
Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
epub |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Robert M. Utley

TWENTY-TWO MILES IN COMMAND, 1886 IN TWO AUTOBIOGRAPHIES GENERAL Nelson A. Miles denied any wish ever to serve in Apache country. When as commanding general of the Department of the ...
( Category: Americas June 8,2018 )
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
epub |eng | 2018-06-05 | Author:Michael Eric Dyson [Dyson, Michael Eric]

The Activists 1 Policy and Witness Black activism has existed as long as the white world has viewed black folk as inferior. Black activists have often upset the establishment by ...
( Category: Americas June 6,2018 )
Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Utley

17 FORT BUFORD IN CLOSENESS TO Sitting Bull, no man surpassed One Bull, his nephew and adopted son. Following the parley and skirmish with Bear Coat in October 1876, his ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 5,2018 )
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Austin Channing Brown

7 Nice White People We were on a working retreat. Earlier that day, the seven of us had left the safety of the diverse city and traveled north to a ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 3,2018 )

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