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Just Another Nigger by Cox Don; Marshall Kimberly Cox; Wasserman Steve
epub |eng | | Author:Cox, Don; Marshall, Kimberly Cox; Wasserman, Steve

9 The Big Apple NEW YORK, NEW YORK—the Big Apple. I thought it was a wild place, but it had a magnetic effect upon me. Coming from a place as ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 7,2019 )
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L Moore
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Darnell L Moore

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY IS in South Orange, a short hour and a half drive from Camden, but it was far enough away from home for me to stumble into new ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 29,2018 )
Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl by Rashod Ollison
mobi |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Rashod Ollison

As spring burned into summer, children ran up and down Tanya Street screaming and laughing. They jumped rope and Double Dutched in driveways and pop-locked to hip-hop blaring from boomboxes ...
( Category: LGBT April 13,2018 )
Live Through This by Clay Cane
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Clay Cane

“YOU FAGGOT NIGGER!” KATIE BARKED, PUSHING ME against a locker, finger in my face. This was my daily hell in seventh grade, I was harassed by my evil peers in ...
( Category: LGBT April 8,2018 )
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Rosalind Rosenberg

Adding “Sex” to Title VII Murray faced not just divided women’s and civil rights movements but also a problem inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause covered only ...
( Category: Women March 18,2018 )
Good Things Happen Slowly by Fred Hersch
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Fred Hersch

Courtesy of the author Me, age four, with my brother, Hank, just under two years old Courtesy of the author Me, age thirteen, and Hank, age eleven, jamming at the ...
( Category: Classical February 4,2018 )
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
epub |eng | 2017-01-07 | Author:Audre Lorde

October 24, 1985 EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the invasion of Grenada. The smallest nation in the western hemisphere occupied by the largest. I spoke about ...
( Category: Breast Cancer January 7,2018 )
Lush Life by David Hajdu
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:David Hajdu [Hajdu, David]

8 THERE WAS NOBODY LOOKIN’ Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington inhabited the same world, but each for his own reasons and on his own terms, and you could see the ...
( Category: Jazz October 18,2017 )
Bitch Is the New Black by Helena Andrews
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Helena Andrews [Andrews, Helena]

Nine HELENA ANDREWS HAS THE BEST PUSSY IN THE WORLD ABORTION MONKEY? Who wouldn’t open that e-mail? It was the winter of 2004, and my virtual load of junk mail ...
( Category: Journalists September 30,2017 )
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Daniel Levine
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Daniel Levine

Freedom Summer, which became one origin of the split, actually had its beginning in the summer of 1963. SNCC had for some time been working at a voter registration campaign ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:John D'Emilio

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Ours Is Not a World-Shaking Project” 1960-1962 DEVASTATING AS THE BREAK with King was, Rustin’s situation was very different from what he had confronted after Pasadena. This time ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Janet Mock [Mock, Janet]

Part Three Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake ...
( Category: Women September 5,2017 )
The Secret Life of a Black Aspie by Anand Prahlad
epub |eng | | Author:Anand Prahlad

The Big Yellow House You can’t have your cake and eat it too. When I got to college, I was like a black boat floating in a white ocean, like ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 25,2017 )
Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock
epub |eng | | Author:Janet Mock

PART TWO NINE THE FIRST DEPICTION OF NEW YORK CITY that left an indelible mark on me was the opening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly emerges from a yellow ...
( Category: Women June 23,2017 )
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
epub |eng | 2008-06-07 | Author:Douglas A. Blackmon [Blackmon, Douglas A.]

IX A RIVER OF ANGER The South Is "an armed camp." In the three months since Reese began his slavery investigation, the guilt of every defendant called to court had ...
( Category: African-American Studies June 8,2017 )

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