African-American & Black
epub |eng | 2019-10-11 | Author:Tupa Tjipombo & Chris Lockhart

* * * I was riding in a donkey cart through the Namibian veld. The rush of air on my face was warm but pleasant, and when I tilted my ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wolfgang Bauer [Bauer, Wolfgang]

naira ( about 180 euros ) dowry. That is a good price for us in Gubla. He also wanted to add five boxes of clothes, cosmetics, underwear, and earrings. Iddi’s ...
( Category: African April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 1978-03-14 | Author:Steve Biko [Biko, Steve]

16 “The Righteousness of our Strength” If, as has been indicated in the introduction to chapter 13, the Black Consciousness Movement is implacably against the Afrikaner’s “Divide and Rule” policy ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-14 | Author:Thernstrom, Stephan & Thernstrom, Abigail [Thernstrom, Stephan]

TRACKING If standardized tests are unfair to blacks—or more broadly to students from other than middle-class homes—it follows that using them to assign students to particular courses or academic tracks ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlos Moore

Childhood home in Central Lugareño (1997). My mother, Winifred Rebecca Wedderburn (circa 1955). My mother (circa 1958). My biological father, Whitfield “Trinidad” Dacosta Marshall (circa 1942). My adoptive father, Victor ...
( Category: Political March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Selenis Leyva [Leyva, Selenis and Leyva, Marizol]

I WAS still living with Cameron and his family when I turned eighteen. On my birthday, Cameron announced, “We’re gonna go party!” We went to the club that night, but ...
( Category: LGBT March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bettye Kearse

Bonnie and I continued through the museum, taking in representations of slave auctions, the financially crippling and socially demeaning post–Civil War sharecropping system, and a black woman drinking from a ...
( Category: United States March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Neil Lanctot

14 ACHES, PAINS, AND A COMEBACK NO SOONER HAD THOMSON touched home plate than the Dodger switchboard was jammed with near-hysterical callers screaming, “Lemme talk to that blankety-blank O’Malley [or ...
( Category: Baseball March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Deborah Willis

The May 19, 2008, cover of Time magazine features a portrait of a smiling Obama accompanied by the caption “And the Winner Is…(Really, we’re pretty sure this time).” The cover ...
( Category: Photo Essays March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Larry S. Gibson

After reviewing Pearson's letter, Marshall drafted a letter on Murray's behalf to the University of Maryland's Board of Regents: On January 24, 1935, pursuant to and in accordance with the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Williams & Bart Davis

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ambitious people drive themselves to lead. They’re motivated. They have goals and self-esteem. It was easy for me to spot people without ambition. They were the ones without ...
( Category: Business March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Marilynn Griffith

A New Name Marilynn Griffith He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give some of the ...
( Category: Women's Issues March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Art Shiver

Ghana House Murals Four years after the completion of the African House Murals, Mignon decided the time had come for Hunter to paint another series of plantation murals. He explained ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Gordon Parks

Chapter 27 MY NEXT assignment involved violence of another kind. With Hank Suydam, a young reporter, I was sent to expose “Crime Across America.” Chicago, the outlaw kingdom of Al ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Jermaine Dupri & Samantha Marshall

9 A JAGGED ERA The funny thing about success is that it never feels exactly how you think it will. Your song could get nominated or win a Grammy and ...
( Category: Rap & Hip-Hop March 22,2020 )