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Living in Color by Tommy Davidson
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Tommy Davidson

Chapter 8 The Meanness Keenen was not one to shout, scream, or lose his temper on set. He was tough—mentally and personally. He didn’t have a lot of time for ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 15,2020 )
Contact High by Tobak Vikki
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Tobak, Vikki [Tobak, Vikki]

LOS ANGELES, 1994 ESTEVAN ORIOL CYPRESS HILL Photographer Estevan Oriol first started taking pictures after his father, famed photographer Eriberto Oriol, gave him a Minolta camera and explained two concepts ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 15,2020 )
The Butler by Wil Haygood
epub |eng | | Author:Wil Haygood

* * * THE GREAT AND grand conversations about money and movies hark back to the moguls of the last century. Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn both wanted to ...
( Category: United States March 15,2020 )
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Pool
epub |eng | 2018-12-06 | Author:Hannah Pool

3 H ANNAH?” SAYS A deep voice to my left. I turn and come face to face with a tall man, whose skin is exactly the same color and tone ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration March 15,2020 )
Black History For Beginners by Denise Dennis
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Denise Dennis

The power of the black vote was evident in the 1868 Presidential election. 450,000 blacks voted for Grant: the Democratic candidate lost by 300,000. Blacks gave Grant the decisive edge. ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 14,2020 )
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name by Audre Lorde
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Audre Lorde

Before long, I was totally dependent upon Ginger for human contact in Stamford, and her invitations to Sunday dinner represented the only real food I ever ate. She built up ...
( Category: LGBT March 14,2020 )
A Mission from God by James Meredith & William Doyle
epub |eng | | Author:James Meredith & William Doyle

The Battle Begins: In a surprise operation, the first wave of 400 Deputy U.S. Marshals seizes the Lyceum building at the center of campus on September 30, 1962, as night ...
( Category: United States March 14,2020 )
Radio Free Dixie by Timothy B. Tyson
epub |eng | 2010-03-13 | Author:Timothy B. Tyson

8: Cuba Libre When Fidel Castro came to Harlem and lived at the Hotel Theresa for several days in the autumn of 1960, he met with Nikita Khrushchev of the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 14,2020 )
Goal Dust by Woody Strode & Sam Young
epub |eng | 1990-03-13 | Author:Woody Strode & Sam Young

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Integration of Pro Sports During my three years at March Field, Leo and I lived on base during the week and came home to Los Angeles on ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 14,2020 )
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Rankine Claudia
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Rankine, Claudia [Rankine, Claudia]

Before Mbeki, thirty-nine drug companies filed suit in order to prevent South Africa’s manufacture of generic AIDS drugs. Possible trade sanctions were threatened. Then President Clinton did an about-face and ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 14,2020 )
The Song and The Silence by Yvette Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Yvette Johnson

A Moralist The night Mississippi: A Self-Portrait aired marked the culmination of one of Frank De Felitta’s most ambitious projects. Almost an entire year had passed between the evening when ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 14,2020 )
Woman of Color by LaTonya Yvette
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:LaTonya Yvette

Chapter Four The V Word It is 8:15 A.M., and I hop out of my Lyft and walk through the iced-over snow and mud to enter the set for a ...
( Category: Fashion Design March 13,2020 )
A Fine Team Man by Joe Cox
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Cox

Parting ways with the Dodgers did not render Sukeforth a home-body. He followed Branch Rickey to Pittsburgh, where he scouted and coached for the Pirates. Demonstrating that his scouting eye ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 13,2020 )
Taken for Granted by Gianno Caldwell
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Gianno Caldwell

* * * — I FIRST ENCOUNTERED this kind of unlikely teamwork when I started working at the Illinois State Capitol. I lobbied the legislature, government officials, and consultants of ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 13,2020 )
Rad American History A-Z by Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Kate Schatz & Miriam Klein Stahl

ON FEBRUARY 14, 2018, a teenager armed with an automatic firearm walked onto the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland, Florida, and began firing his weapon. ...
( Category: Women in History March 13,2020 )

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