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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Robinson, Sugar Ray/ Anderson, Dave [Robinson, Sugar Ray/ Anderson, Dave]

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Lorraine Hansberry

WALTER —Do you hear the beating of the wings of the birds flying low over the mountains and the low places of our land— BENEATHA OCOMOGOSIAY! WALTER —Do you hear ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-17 | Author:Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Arsenault, Raymond

7 Freedom’s Coming and It Won’t Be Long We took a trip on a Greyhound bus, Freedom’s coming and it won’t be long. To fight segregation where we must, Freedom’s ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Timothy White [White, Timothy]

In the early 1970s, Chris Blackwell bought a run-down great house at 56 Hope Road in uptown Kingston. It was a two-story jalousied building set back from the road behind ...