African-American & Black
epub |eng | | Author:Marion Barry, Jr. & Omar Tyree

CHAPTER 11 D.C. DRUG WARS No one was prepared for the drug culture and the violence that took over the streets in the mid-1980s with crack cocaine; it simply took ...
( Category: Political March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lydia Meredith

( Category: African-American & Black March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Michele Wallace [Wallace, Michele]

… throughout the entire span of her existence on American soil, the Negro woman has been alone and unprotected, not only socially but psychologically as well. She has had to ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Christine King Farris

12 SELMA AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE Even with the victories in Montgomery and in Birmingham, even with the success of the March on Washington, and even ...
( Category: United States March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Anthony Griffith

Brigitte I love that bit. Anthony Afterward, Jim said, “What else have you got?” That meant no. It meant “This is not for The Tonight Show.” It meant “Is there ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Johnson

VIII ~ ON THE DAY FOLLOWING OUR night at the “Club” we slept until late in the afternoon; so late that beginning search for work was entirely out of the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Frederick Douglass [Douglass, Frederick]

CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s Table of Contents THE VILLAGE—ITS INHABITANTS—THEIR OCCUPATION AND LOW PROPENSITIES CAPTAN(sic) THOMAS AULD—HIS CHARACTER—HIS SECOND WIFE, ROWENA—WELL MATCHED—SUFFERINGS FROM HUNGER—OBLIGED TO TAKE FOOD—MODE OF ...
( Category: American Civil War March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-07 | Author:Travis Atria

27 “All the [bad] musicians had faded out of the picture in Paris entirely.”1 —Arthur Briggs ARTHUR BRIGGS SOLDIERED ON. IN February 1935, he met the great saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, ...
( Category: Jazz March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Lee Stringer [Vonnegut, Lee Stringer; foreword by Kurt]

Chapter 12 I was smoked out, tapped out, thirsty as hell for another blast, dragging my ass in for the night with great reluctance, when, a few doors down the ...
( Category: Poverty March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Ralph Ellison & John F. Callahan & Marc C. Conner

To Albert Murray OCT. 3, 1957 Dear Albert, I’ve been back just over a week and have been so busy trying to ship out of here that I haven’t had ...
( Category: United States March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stacey Patton

SEVEN Were African Americans mentally, physically, and spiritually damaged by slavery? In freedom, did they relive the experiences of their bondage through nightmares and flashbacks? Or did some former slaves ...
( Category: Child Abuse March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:John F. Jr. Baker

In December 1863 George requested and received permission from a Union Major R. S. Granger to send a portion of the women and children inside Union lines in Nashville. In ...
( Category: United States March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Jennifer Baszile

I DON’T THINK OF YOU AS BLACK I CAUGHT MY FIRST glimpse of the gleaming white cruise ship as the airport shuttle bus pulled to the edge of the Miami ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Dave Kindred

If intimations of mortality first came in whispers to Cosell, in the fall of the year they came as shoutings. In Munich, Germany, at seven o’clock on the morning of ...
( Category: Boxing March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish

CHAPTER 15 Voyage of the Titans In late June of 1901, a triumphant Taylor arrived in Southampton, England, preparing to board one of the greatest steamships of the day, the ...
( Category: Cycling March 20,2020 )