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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 )
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 )
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 )
Lettin It All Hang Out by Rupaul
epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Rupaul [Rupaul]

I didn't plan to upstage the others, but everyone was so well behaved. I always forget that people get nervous and can't talk on TV. I have never had that ...
( Category: LGBT January 17,2020 )
Citizen Akoy by Steve Marantz
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Marantz

Thus did Akoy live-tweet his arthroscopic knee surgery at Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital. It is believed to be the first live-tweet by a patient in surgery in Nebraska and possibly anywhere. ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 17,2020 )
Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Andre Perry

3 “In college,” Miranda said, “I was a hipster. I was one of the cool kids.” She meant, I think, to impart on me that, despite my literary pursuits and ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
The Measure of Our Lives by Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” “Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Schaap Jeremy
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Schaap, Jeremy [Schaap, Jeremy]

Hiring Riefenstahl to make the official Olympic film was both unsurprising and a stroke of genius. It was clear that she could be counted on to present to the world ...
( Category: Olympic Games January 16,2020 )
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth & Olive Gilbert
epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Sojourner Truth & Olive Gilbert [Truth, Sojourner & Gilbert, Olive]

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism December 30,2019 )
Eugene O'Neill by Robert M. Dowling
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Dowling

Still, Boulton recognized that her compulsive husband had neither the time nor the emotional wherewithal for extramarital affairs—not of a sexual nature, she felt certain, at least not yet.160 “Dirty ...
( Category: Drama December 21,2019 )
An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage, and Survival by Françoise Malby-Anthony
epub |eng | | Author:Françoise Malby-Anthony

* * * I named the calf Tom in honour of my gentle chef, whose presence of mind in investigating a strange noise had saved the little one’s life. We ...
( Category: Wildlife December 17,2019 )

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