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No, You Shut Up by Symone D. Sanders
epub |eng | 2020-05-18 | Author:Symone D. Sanders

So how can the factions on the left best intersect? Where do we—millennials of color, Black women, progressives—go from here? First off, it’s good to recognize we have made strides ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 22,2020 )
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World (Enhanced Audiobook Content) by Jacqueline Novogratz
epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

Chapter 8 AVOID THE CONFORMITY TRAP A few months before the financial crisis of 2008, a prominent Swiss banker invited me to serve on an advisory council for a new ...
( Category: Social Activists May 20,2020 )
Troop 6000 by Nikita Stewart
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Nikita Stewart [Stewart, Nikita]

* * * The next week, David walked into work at Vapiano on Thursday and a manager told him that he’d been terminated. “No show, no call” was the reason ...
( Category: Social Policy May 20,2020 )
Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Finney Boylan

* * * My mother called me on the phone. There were some issues with Brown. “Well,” Mom said. “It’s her paws. She kind of chews them, you see.” “She ...
( Category: LGBT May 17,2020 )
Home Baked by Alia Volz
epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Alia Volz [Alia Volz]

* * * Doug still believed in his duty to carry out the Berkeley Psychic Institute word. He gave readings and shared off-the-cuff observations with friends, brownie clients, and sometimes ...
( Category: Social Activists May 9,2020 )
Love Behind Bars by Jodie Sinclair
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Jodie Sinclair

After seeing the television news about the bribe offers made to Billy Wayne Sinclair and his wife Jody [sic] Sinclair to gain his freedom from Angola Prison, I am appalled ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals May 7,2020 )
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 )
Surviving the Forgotten Genocide by John Minassian
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:John Minassian

Prisoners of War I was instructed to socialize with no one, not even at work, and especially not outside the office. The next day the workers put up a white ...
( Category: Asian April 21,2020 )
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 )
Ethics into Action by Peter Singer
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Peter Singer [Singer, Peter]

Making History Shelley organized a major press conference at the Plaza Hotel, at which Bergerac would hand over the initial check to a representativeof the university. The day of the ...
( Category: Political April 16,2020 )
The Revolution Where You Live by Sarah Van Gelder
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Sarah Van Gelder

Entering Whitesburg, Kentucky, you are greeted by these sculptures. Smith ran me through the history of Appalshop. In 1969, during the War on Poverty, the federal Office of Economic Opportunity ...
( Category: Political April 14,2020 )
Rachel Maddow by Lisa Rogak
epub |eng | | Author:Lisa Rogak

* * * The longer Susan and Rachel were together as a couple, the more they thrived. Because Rachel was admittedly more one-dimensional in her interests, she came to rely ...
( Category: Journalists April 14,2020 )
A Short Life of Martin by Thomas Kaufmann
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Kaufmann

EPILOGUE Luther and Christianity In the history of the Western Church—indeed, of Christianity as a whole—the Lutheran Reformation marks a radical break. This holds for theological understanding, for the practice ...
( Category: Social Activists April 13,2020 )
Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest
epub |eng | 2019-04-14 | Author:Mab Segrest

11 A Journey We Make Daily “Ichi! Ni! San! Shi! Go! Roku! Shichi! Hachi! Ku! Ju!” I lay on the dojo floor with ten women, counting sit-ups in Japanese. My ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 5,2020 )
William Dudley Pelley by Scott Beekman
azw3 |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Scott Beekman

11 Soulcraft 1950—1965 WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY'S release from prison in 1950 was perceived by his supporters as a victory over the Communist conspiracy, but it left the former Silver Shirt ...
( Category: Fascism April 4,2020 )

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