epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-04 | 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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Theodore Rosengarten [Rosengarten, Theodore]

THE night my daddy died, I stayed there the balance of the night, studyin and plannin on how to take a hold, run around and see about all of his ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Jerrold Ladd [LADD, JERROLD]

In December 1986, the winter weather was still around, and everybody stayed bundled up. Lisa invited me to a Christmas party her family intended to throw. Word was around the ...

epub |eng | 2007-09-26 | Author:Bliss Broyard [BROYARD, BLISS]

A white reporter from the Picayune (a paper that didn’t usually favor black people) was assigned to cover the horrors of school integration. Instead he found “white ladies teaching negro ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Shalhoup, Mara [Shalhoup, Mara]

For the past eight months, a federal manhunt had been under way for a St. Louis fugitive named Deron “Wonnie” Gatling. Wonnie (or “Magic,” as he also was known) was ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Jamal Joseph [Joseph, Jamal]

10 Revolution in Our Lifetime It was spring in Harlem, and people were in bloom on the streets. Children playing and beautiful women doing African ballets just by walking down ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:John Holway

Double Duty Radcliffe (left) with Chicago American Giants manager Candy Jim Taylor (right) in the Memphis Red Sox park, opening day 1939. (Photo courtesy of Phil Dixon). Bill Foster at ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Sharpton, Al [Sharpton, Al]

13 * * * PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH My social activism is my religion in practice. It is the daily embodiment of my lifelong service to God. As a Christian, ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Adrian Matejka

HOSTILITIES Belle & I returned after a fine supper of roasted quail in the Crystal Dining Room. Hattie was waiting in the mauve hallway right outside our rooms. She was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-09-23 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Celia Cruz There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. The list of singers, musicians, and poets must include David the harpist from the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Bailey and Mother left that same day, but not before ragging me about the inane predicament I had created for myself. “It’s time for the troubleshooters to move on. You ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Barack Obama [Obama, Barack]

The Audacity of Hope Chapter Six Faith TWO DAYS AFTER I won the Democratic nomination in my U.S. Senate race, I received an email from a doctor at the University ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Manning Marable [Marable, Manning]

Despite continuing threats, the Littles struggled to build a UNIA organization. On Sunday, May 8, 1926, the local branch held a meeting that featured “Mr. E. Little” as its principal ...