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Oliver Tambo – His Life and Legacy by Luli Callinicos
epub |eng | 2018-03-15 | Author:Luli Callinicos

( Category: Political March 15,2019 )
Bearing the cross by David J. Garrow
epub |eng | 1986-03-13 | Author:David J. Garrow

406 Bearing the Cross Johnson concluded by saying he had advised Governor Wallace to do three things: declare his support for universal suffrage; assure the right of peaceful assembly in ...
( Category: Social Activists March 14,2019 )
The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Applegate Debby
epub |eng | 2006-03-13 | Author:Applegate, Debby

262 ^^ The Most Famous Man in America soon began to cry," said Henry. "Then I went and shut all the doors, for I did not want anyone to see ...
( Category: American Revolution March 14,2019 )
A Politically Incorrect Feminist by Phyllis Chesler
epub |eng | | Author:Phyllis Chesler

10 Do Women of Color Have the Right to Kill White Male Rapists in Self-Defense? Do Lesbians Have the Right to Custody of Their Children? In my pre-feminist days, sexual ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 10,2019 )
Just Another Nigger by Cox Don; Marshall Kimberly Cox; Wasserman Steve
epub |eng | | Author:Cox, Don; Marshall, Kimberly Cox; Wasserman, Steve

9 The Big Apple NEW YORK, NEW YORK—the Big Apple. I thought it was a wild place, but it had a magnetic effect upon me. Coming from a place as ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 7,2019 )
The Pianist from Syria by Aeham Ahmad & Emanuel Bergmann
epub |eng | | Author:Aeham Ahmad & Emanuel Bergmann

* * * One day at around noon I was crouching on the ground, as always, ceaselessly frying falafel, with Samer by my side. The line seemed endless: somewhere between ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians February 27,2019 )
No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L Moore
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Darnell L Moore

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY IS in South Orange, a short hour and a half drive from Camden, but it was far enough away from home for me to stumble into new ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 29,2018 )
Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride & Joe Biden
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Sarah McBride & Joe Biden

When you’ve never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it’s almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home. As openly transgender people, we had ...
( Category: Social Activists March 13,2018 )
Close to the Knives by David Wojnarowicz
epub |eng | | Author:David Wojnarowicz

Are photographs just tiny windows looking onto the world, frozen moments of it that lie flat and quiet without sound or smell or movement? Susan Whatsername said something about photographs ...
( Category: LGBT October 15,2017 )
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Janet Mock [Mock, Janet]

Part Three Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake ...
( Category: Women September 5,2017 )
The Cross in the Closet by Kurek Timothy
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Kurek, Timothy [Kurek, Timothy]

~~~ Shawn finds me, hours later, in the corner of Tribe, four beers in. He sits next to me on the couch and puts his arms around me. My head ...
( Category: LGBT August 28,2017 )
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Chin Staceyann
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-29 | Author:Chin, Staceyann [Chin, Staceyann]

Part II God Helps Those Who Help Themselves I know that if I want to get out of Paradise I have to find a way to go to high school. ...
( Category: Women August 28,2017 )
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Paul Monette

On paper it looked pretty tame—the student tour of the Top 40, cramming every Rembrandt and Van Gogh I could find. Originally I'd put Amsterdam on the itinerary because of ...
( Category: LGBT August 22,2017 )
Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock
epub |eng | | Author:Janet Mock

PART TWO NINE THE FIRST DEPICTION OF NEW YORK CITY that left an indelible mark on me was the opening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Holly Golightly emerges from a yellow ...
( Category: Women June 23,2017 )
When We Rise by Cleve Jones
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Cleve Jones

Our next opportunity to take the streets was only weeks away: a referendum challenging a gay rights bill that had been enacted in Wichita, Kansas. The election would be on ...
( Category: Social Activists June 21,2017 )

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