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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards
mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
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 )
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
mobi, epub, pdf |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 Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies 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 )
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 )
Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Michael Hingson

In tough times one of my favorite biblical passages is Psalm 23, and the older I get, the more I realize that life isn’t just about green pastures and still ...
( Category: Disabled March 25,2014 )
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Winterson Jeanette
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Winterson, Jeanette [Winterson, Jeanette]

9 English Literature A–Z THE ACCRINGTON PUBLIC library had a copy of most things. It had a copy of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932). When I ...
( Category: LGBT March 25,2014 )
Sugar Ray by Robinson Sugar Ray/ Anderson Dave
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Robinson, Sugar Ray/ Anderson, Dave [Robinson, Sugar Ray/ Anderson, Dave]

( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )

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