African-American & Black
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:McNeil, William F.
Cus’s voice was raspy during the talk, causing him to clear his throat frequently. It was the first symptom of the insidious illness that would take his life less than ...
( Category:
Boxing
January 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Maya Angelou
22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded by ...
( Category:
Discrimination & Racism
January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Dennis Rodman
Reality Check: Don’t drink and do reality shows. Following the intervention, ESPN cornered Darren in the back of an Aladdin Hotel limo for a parting comment. “This is it, there’s ...
( Category:
Basketball
January 17,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Bell Hooks [Hooks, Bell]
bh: I feel like if I was a kid lookin’ at that movie, I wouldn’t wanna be him, I’d wanna be you, because your character had the jazz. I mean, ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
January 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Thomas Hauser [Hauser, Thomas]
Then came an occasion that would have been unthinkable several years earlier. On December 10, 1974, at the invitation of Gerald Ford, Ali visited the White House. GERALD FORD: “I ...
( Category:
Boxing
January 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]
9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
January 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Vanzant, Iyanla [Vanzant, Iyanla]
CHAPTER ELEVEN What’s the Lesson When You Learn the Lesson, Then Forget It? For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me. The ...
( Category:
Women
January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-02 | Author:Iceberg Slim [Slim, Iceberg]
VIGNETTES: THE PROFESSOR I met him by accident, which is a common aspect of calamity. I was fresh from the steel casket and huckstering insecticides at the time when he ...
( Category:
Urban
January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jennifer Clement [Clement, Jennifer]
Things were really bad. We went days without speaking. I secretly started doing heroin because I couldn’t deal with coming down off five days of coke. Jean started staying out ...
( Category:
Artists, Architects & Photographers
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. K. Stratton
If Floyd had practiced self-denial at his training camps and in his choice of accommodations at earlier fights—a freezing jockey’s room, a rat-infested abandoned dancehall—he now indulged himself. He lodged ...
( Category:
Boxing
December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Burton Barr Jr. [Barr, Burton Jr.]
CHAPTER SIX The Hoodlum Preacher Christine decided to drive me to Chicago. She and Deborah had always been close, and they hadn’t seen each other for a while. I tried ...
( Category:
Religious
December 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Joy Lincoln [Lincoln, Joy]
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ― Maya Angelou “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has ...
( Category:
Women
December 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Michael Conliffe [Conliffe, Michael]
Shorty was listening to everything she said, and knew she was right, so that’s exactly what he did, but not before slapping T in the face with the side of ...
( Category:
Urban
December 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Wes Moore
As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category:
African-American Studies
December 21,2014 )
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