African-American & Black
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Laura Schroff

Not long after our Thanksgiving together, I asked Maurice what he usually did for Christmas. “Nothing,” he said with a shrug. “What do you mean? Don’t you celebrate Christmas?” “Nope.” ...
( Category: African-American & Black December 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-01 | Author:David Fiske

IN NEW ORLEANS AND WASHINGTON Two days later, Solomon and Henry were in New Orleans. By this time, they had probably decided to file charges against Birch, and Henry needed ...
( Category: State & Local December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Louis Gates

In their efforts to prove Jefferson wrong, in other words, black writers created a body of literature, one with a prime political motive: to demonstrate black equality. Surely this is ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 24,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Theresa Runstedtler [Runstedtler, Theresa]

Figure 13. The caricatures of black American boxers that appeared in French newspapers closely resembled popular images of the African tirailleurs (soldiers). “Après le match—Sen-Sen chewing gum,” L'Auto, 28 March ...
( Category: Boxing November 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Douglass

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-04-18 | Author:Barack Obama

Chapter Six — Faith TWO DAYS AFTER I won the Democratic nomination in my U.S. Senate race, I received an email from a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical ...
( Category: African-American Studies November 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:West, Cornel; Buschendorf, Christa [West, Cornel; Buschendorf, Christa]

But here, as in so many other cases, when she was really radical, she had to cope with the consequences, and the consequences were severe, because, in this case, with ...
( Category: Asian November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:West, Cornel; Buschendorf, Christa [West, Cornel; Buschendorf, Christa]

But here, as in so many other cases, when she was really radical, she had to cope with the consequences, and the consequences were severe, because, in this case, with ...
( Category: Asian November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-08 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Seventeen PATRICIA STEPHENS DUE “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” —Bondei proverb I had just been arrested again when I heard about the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church ...
( Category: State & Local November 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Theresa Runstedtler

Figure 13. The caricatures of black American boxers that appeared in French newspapers closely resembled popular images of the African tirailleurs (soldiers). “Après le match—Sen-Sen chewing gum,” L'Auto, 28 March ...
( Category: Boxing October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Duberman

CHAPTER 22 Resurgence (1957–1958) The enforced inactivity in Robeson’s life coincided, ironically, with an upsurge of movement for black Americans in general. The beaching of a man who had spoken ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers October 31,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-04-01 | Author:Tananarive Due [Due, Tananarive]

Seventeen PATRICIA STEPHENS DUE “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” —Bondei proverb I had just been arrested again when I heard about the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church ...
( Category: State & Local October 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Aboulafia, Anita J [Aboulafia, Anita J]

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...
( Category: United States October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Obama, Barack [Obama, Barack]

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Huffman, Booker T & Wright, Andrew William [Huffman, Booker T]

8 THE WENDY’S BANDITS The traumatic memory of the sidewalk stabbing remained at the forefront of my thoughts for days. Meanwhile, the drudgery of Wendy’s was getting me down. Working ...
( Category: Wrestling October 16,2014 )