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Fashion Is Freedom by Tala Raassi
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Tala Raassi

Chapter 18 Fashion in the Haunted Town House The energy between us—the three musketeers—was high. We were on a mission and shared the same passion, which created a highly motivating ...
( Category: Women June 4,2017 )
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
azw3, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Coretta Scott King

SEVENTEEN My Fifth Child THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, whenever I didn’t pray, things went badly. I would become frustrated and feel out of sync with the will and purpose of God. ...
( Category: Women in History May 1,2017 )
Waging Peace by David Hartsough
epub |eng | 2014-04-25 | Author:David Hartsough

Guatemalan refugees on the Chiapas border in Mexico, having fled their homes and the genocidal violence in Guatemala (1982). [Photo: David Hartsough] A generation later, the cycle of repression was ...
( Category: War & Peace April 26,2017 )
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

“THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF SELF-MADE MEN” (1860) Douglass’s self-made men speeches were immensely popular from 1860 until his death in 1895. Over time he altered the speech as he ...
( Category: American Civil War March 23,2017 )
At Home in the World by Thich Nhat Hanh
epub |eng | 2016-12-05 | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

The loss of a friend like Mr. Mounet was so painful. I had to deliver a talk the next morning. I wanted to sleep but I coudn’t, so I practiced ...
( Category: Spirituality March 18,2017 )
Sometimes Brilliant by Larry Brilliant
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Larry Brilliant

CHAPTER 13 Tales of the Jungle We are all faced with a series of opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. —Charles Swindoll We returned to the capital of India, alive ...
( Category: Epidemiology February 26,2017 )
The Boy Who Runs by John Brant
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:John Brant

Pushing on with life…his abandoned blessings…yours lovely…How could you resist such a letter? Summoning his own competitive will, and perhaps realizing that a journey to Africa might catapult him to ...
( Category: Running & Jogging February 26,2017 )
The End of Protest by Micah White
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Micah White [White, Micah]

Strategic Insight The Ghost Dance is a crucial example for activists to consider. It validates voluntarism and theurgism. Protest does not need to directly challenge power in order to be ...
( Category: Political Advocacy January 15,2017 )
Songs of a War Boy by Deng Thiak Adut & Ben Mckelvey
epub |eng | 2016-10-24 | Author:Deng Thiak Adut & Ben Mckelvey [Thiak Adut, Deng]

Chapter Eight SOME TO JUSTICE, SOME TO FATE After the peace was signed into law, many of the Sudanese who had run to Australia planned their return. The peace agreement ...
( Category: Essays November 21,2016 )
Our Revolution by Bernie Sanders
epub |eng | | Author:Bernie Sanders

MAKING IT EASIER FOR WORKERS TO JOIN UNIONS To rebuild the middle class, we must make it easier, not harder, for workers to join unions. The benefits of joining a ...
( Category: History & Theory November 17,2016 )
A Radical Faith by Eileen Markey
epub |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Eileen Markey

CHAPTER 8 Mission to the United States Maura woke in her dusty room on October 22, 1976, the cries of the neighborhood roosters and the rattletrap buses already noisy on ...
( Category: Nicaragua November 13,2016 )
The New New Journalism by Robert Boynton
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Boynton

ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC There were nights during the decade that Adrian Nicole LeBlanc reported Random Family—her 2002 saga of drugs, crime, life, and love in the South Bronx—that she’d grow ...
( Category: Journalists August 7,2016 )
One Thousand Wells by Jena Lee Nardella
epub |eng | | Author:Jena Lee Nardella

Project: No. 127 Location: Sangala, Central African Republic Partner: Water for Good Currently the only operating water organization in Central African Republic, Water for Good’s team maintains a network of ...
( Category: Religious July 13,2016 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Political June 16,2016 )
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Jessica Valenti

FRIENDS MAKE FUN OF PAUL AND ME FOR BEING BASICALLY married while in college but we are far from perfect. I am far from perfect. One day while we are ...
( Category: Authors June 9,2016 )

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