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Dear Marcus: A Letter to the Man Who Shot Me by McGill Jerry
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:McGill, Jerry [McGill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir by Helena Andrews
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Helena Andrews

Nine HELENA ANDREWS HAS THE BEST PUSSY IN THE WORLD ABORTION MONKEY? Who wouldn’t open that e-mail? It was the winter of 2004, and my virtual load of junk mail ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
A Reason to Believe by Governor Deval Patrick
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Governor Deval Patrick

Over the years, we’ve opened our doors to these and many other people who were hungry for company, attention, and affection. Growing up, I know that I too longed for ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Maya Angelou

Power of the Word Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Howard Bryant

BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE, it was Jackie Robinson who indirectly wound up being responsible for Henry’s half century of loyalty to the Democratic party. For years, Henry had sought to pattern ...
( Category: Baseball March 25,2014 )
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Andrea Stuart

11 The history of liberty is a history of resistance. —WOODROW WILSON WHILE THE ISLANDERS strove to further consolidate their sugar empire, the outside world was once again nipping at ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 25,2014 )
Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Anita Hill

Within the first hour of my appearance before the committee I was asked to repeat details of experiences which I had already forced myself to describe first to Metzenbaum and ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
No Easy Road by Patsy Whyte
mobi, epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Patsy Whyte

We were way out in front as the second girl in our team-of-three dived into the water, increasing the lead yet further with every stroke. Then it was my turn. ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 25,2014 )
In The Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Rideau Wilbert
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-07-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter by Alison Wearing
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Alison Wearing

BORDERS AND CREAM PUFFS Children of parents who live separately have no trouble understanding what a border crossing is between countries, for we contain a similar cleft within ourselves: between ...
( Category: Parenting Girls March 25,2014 )
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Gabriel Mary
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Gabriel, Mary [Gabriel, Mary]

Marx appeared to be in the mood for full disclosure, because in the same letter he told Engels the true status of Capital. “There are three more chapters to be ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )
Ghosts of Manila by Mark Kram
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mark Kram

On March 8, 1971, according to Muhammad Ali, the planet would stumble in its axis, billions would hold their breaths, including every last ice-covered Sherpa and sand-swept Bedouin, an ecumenical ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It by Charles Barkley
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-01 | Author:Charles Barkley

“I Am Not a Role Model” Nike didn’t come to me with the idea to do a commercial about role models—I went to Nike with that idea. I talked to ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )

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