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Money, Power, Respect
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
First, In What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, the bold and beautiful Denene Milner and Nick Chiles gave the real deal of love and relationships. It was hailed as the African American Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. Then, in What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex, the savvy supercouple...
Broken Shackles
Old Man Henson From Slavery to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen Sound, Ontario, an African American known as Old Man Henson, was one of the very few books that documented the journey to Canada from the perspective...
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it...
by Dr. Eric R. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2005
Along the picturesque southern banks of the Ohio River, the African-American communities of Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties have provided laborers and entrepreneurs to aid in the economic growth of the region from the earliest settlements to today. Despite numerous obstacles and against seemingly...
by Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Because the attrition rate for new teachers in high-poverty schools averages between 40% and 50% over the first five years of teaching, this investigation offers practical solutions to more than 100 of the daily challenges they face. With an emphasis on pragmatic approaches that can be accomplished...
by Peter Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. . . . And yet . . . most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well...
The Magnificent Mays
A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Civil rights activist, writer, theologian, preacher, and educator, Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894–1984) was one of the most distinguished South Carolinians of the twentieth century. He influenced the lives of generations of students as a dean and professor of religion at Howard University and as longtime...
The Rise to Respectability
Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal...
by Brooke Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about black men--as rapists, muggers and murderers. The contrast between the black men on the...
by Christopher Handy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Racism is a learned behavior. If you don’t believe it, just watch little children and the way they interact before being taught by parents and others the differences between the races. For it was Jesus, the Son of God, who said that before we can get into heaven we must be as little Children,...
Love Cemetery
Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
By the eve of the Civil War, there were four million slaves in North America, and Harrison County was the largest slave-owning county in Texas. So when China Galland returned to research her family history there, it should not have surprised her to learn of unmarked cemeteries for slaves. "My...
From Generation to Generation
A Commemorative Collection of African American Millenial Sermons from the Festival of Preachers 2010-2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This commemorative collection of sermons by young African American preachers is anchored in gratitude to the strong and deeply-rooted Black religious experience. While several studies speak to the disillusionment of millennials towards formalized religion, Generation to Generation shows a generation...
The Color of Fascism
Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2006
What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white? Born in Atlanta in 1893, Dennis began life as a highly touted African American child preacher, touring nationally and arousing audiences with his...
by John A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2003
Since the founding of St. Louis in 1764, Downtown St. Louis has been a center of black cultural, economic, political, and legal achievements that have shaped not only the city of St. Louis, but the nation as well. From James Beckworth, one of the founders of Denver, Colorado, to Elizabeth Keckley, Mary...