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The Best Pitcher in Baseball by Robert Charles Cottrell
epub |eng | 2001-05-14 | Author:Robert Charles Cottrell

NINE Rube Ball The same article in the Defender that proclaimed Rube Foster “a genius” also lauded his system. It was a system that afforded him absolute control of the ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 31,2020 )
Pauli Murray by Troy R. Saxby
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Troy R. Saxby

Murray was prescient in her reading of the evolution of Supreme Court rulings. She also believed she had played a role in Brown, through the publication of States’ Laws and ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 26,2020 )
Aaron McDuffie Moore by Blake Hill-Saya
epub |eng | 2020-05-25 | Author:Blake Hill-Saya

15 FOR OUR MUTUAL BENEFIT Forging the Mighty Triumvirate The North Carolinian newspaper of Thursday, December 22, 1898, printed, “This morning, about 3:45 o’clock, fire destroyed a stable belonging to ...
( Category: United States May 26,2020 )
My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers
epub |eng | 2020-03-28 | Author:Bakari Sellers

VII Risk Taking The last time an African American was elected to a statewide political office in South Carolina was back in 1876. Obviously, my state needed a change, which ...
( Category: Political May 21,2020 )
The Work by Wes Moore
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Wes Moore [Moore, Wes]

THE WORKER #4 The Globalist ESTHER BENJAMIN Peace Corps “Why not devote your efforts to the place where you live, rather than trying to save the world?” Or “Why help ...
( Category: African-American & Black May 18,2020 )
Damaged Heritage by J. Chester Johnson
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:J. Chester Johnson

6 AFTER FREEDOM SUMMER During the summer of 1964, known among civil rights workers as Freedom Summer, I sat in Quincy House along the Charles River at Harvard University. I ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 6,2020 )
We Inherit What the Fires Left by William Evans
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:William Evans

BEFORE: GOOD NEIGHBORS Dear Neighbors, as I rise before your sun, running past your homes on my morning penance, knowing every break in the sidewalk, knowing where you have hidden ...
( Category: Family May 5,2020 )
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
epub |eng | 2020-03-11 | Author:Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

THE WRITING IS NEVER ON THE WALL Back in the days of the Old Testament, there was a Babylonian king named Belshazzar. He led a decadent lifestyle, even by ancient ...
( Category: Budgeting & Money Management May 3,2020 )
The Rumble in the Jungle by Lewis A. Erenberg
epub |eng | | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg

6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies May 1,2020 )
Black Minded by Michael E. Sawyer;
epub |eng | | Author:Michael E. Sawyer;

Figure 6 Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X (Bob Gomel/Sygma, via Getty Images) There are the obvious elements of time and space that must be accounted for here. Figure 6 is ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 1,2020 )
The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:Walter Thompson-Hernandez

Both Randy and Keenan had grown up listening to rap groups like N.W.A but had never had someone speak to them the way Kendrick’s music did. His music provided a ...
( Category: Riding April 29,2020 )
0062292862 (N) by Kennedy Odede
epub |eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Kennedy Odede [Odede, Kennedy]

We’d been working this way for nearly two years when an American organization that recognized the value of local partnership decided they wanted to support our work. At first we ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning April 21,2020 )
Straighten Up and Fly Right by Will Friedwald
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Will Friedwald

What was Jenkins’s approach to working with Cole? “Well, you sit down at the piano, and he’d sing it through, if he had an idea, he might want to start ...
( Category: Jazz April 21,2020 )
I Don't Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Michael Arceneaux

I LOVE INSTAGRAM. IT SOMETIMES MAKES ME WANT TO DIE. I have developed a bit of a routine over the years. I’ve always been an early riser, but as I’ve ...
( Category: African-American & Black April 16,2020 )
Odetta by Ian Zack
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Ian Zack [Zack, Ian]

Odetta the folksinger is opening her vibrant voice now. “No more moanin’ over me,” she sings. Sitting on the grass listening is a young man in straw hat and overalls. ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians April 14,2020 )

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