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Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown
mobi |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Karamo Brown

With some members of the student government in college. Homecoming court was not what we know traditionally—as in, being voted homecoming king or queen—but was more of a way to ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 6,2020 )
The Women's Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner & Sally Roesch Wagner & Gloria Steinem
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Sally Roesch Wagner & Sally Roesch Wagner & Gloria Steinem

The sponge and “pessaries” (forms of diaphragms and cervical caps) were available, as well as the “baudruche” (condom), which functioned also “to secure from syphilitic affections.”24 Newspapers secured a whopping ...
( Category: Elections March 6,2020 )
Lucretia Mott's Heresy by Faulkner Carol;
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Faulkner, Carol;

CHAPTER 10 Fugitives ROBERT PURVIS ONCE CALLED LUCRETIA MOTT “the most belligerent Non-Resistant he ever saw.” She liked the characterization, telling an audience of abolitionists, “I am no advocate of ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 5,2020 )
Content of our character : a new vision of race in America by Steele Shelby
epub |eng | 1990-03-04 | Author:Steele, Shelby

6 On Being Black and Middle Class Not long ago, a friend of mine, black like myself, said to me that the term black middle class was actually a contradiction ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 5,2020 )
Billie Holiday by Billie Holiday & Khanya Mtshali
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Billie Holiday & Khanya Mtshali

VOICE OF AMERICA JAZZ HOUR INTERVIEW WITH WILLIS CONOVER MARCH 20, 1956 Editor’s Note: The introductory question to this interview was not preserved. BILLIE HOLIDAY: I think I copied my ...
( Category: Country & Folk March 4,2020 )
A Dream Too Big by Caylin Louis Moore
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Caylin Louis Moore

5 QUESTION: “How will you make the most of this opportunity?” I knew my education would continue after Verbum Dei, but midway through my senior year it was still unclear ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 3,2020 )
Lady Tigers in the Concrete Jungle by Dibs Baer
epub |eng | | Author:Dibs Baer

Chapter Eleven A NEW BEGINNING All of the girls turned in their Lady Tiger uniforms before the Christmas break. In the South Bronx, the holidays weren’t always so holly and ...
( Category: Women March 2,2020 )
Shaq Talks Back by Shaquille O'Neal
epub |eng | | Author:Shaquille O'Neal

Shaq Speak A Shaq-to-English Translation for Those Not Schooled in the Language of Homeboy Bling-bling The gleam that occurs when the sun hits a diamond just right. When I say ...
( Category: Basketball March 2,2020 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott [Bell-Scott, Patricia]

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
Death Row Chaplain: Unbelievable True Stories From America's Most Notorious Prison by Mark Schlabach
epub |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Mark Schlabach [Schlabach, Mark]

9 The Baseball Experiment AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE of working as the chaplain at San Quentin Prison, I was still searching for ways to connect with the inmates. Having ...
( Category: Criminology March 2,2020 )
The Southern Mystique by Howard Zinn
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

PART THREE Albany, Georgia: Ghost in the Cage NOWHERE does the South envelop you so completely as in the Black Belt. All around Albany, Georgia, in nearby “Terrible Terrell” County ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 1,2020 )
America I AM: Legends by Tavis Smiley
epub |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Tavis Smiley

Alex Haley (1921–1992): Born in Ithaca, New York, and raised in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley was a prominent journalist and novelist whose work set a new standard for excellence in ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 1,2020 )
Crossing the Continent 1527-1540 by Dr. Robert Goodwin
epub |eng | 2019-04-25 | Author:Dr. Robert Goodwin

( Category: African-American Studies March 1,2020 )
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics by Lester K. Spence
epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Lester K. Spence [Spence, Lester K.]

* * * Roland Fryer is an African American economist at Harvard University. One of the youngest people to ever receive tenure at Harvard (the youngest African American to do ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 29,2020 )
The World Has Changed by Alice Walker
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

ALICE WALKER: I think a lot of different things. One was that I grew up in a very large family; I was very lonely and we always lived in very ...
( Category: United States February 28,2020 )

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