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Democracy Betrayed
The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
At the close of the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party in North Carolina engineered a white supremacy revolution. Frustrated by decades of African American self-assertion and threatened by an interracial coalition advocating democratic reforms, white conservatives used violence, demagoguery,...
Family or Freedom
People of Color in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
In the antebellum South, the presence of free people of color was problematic to the white population. Not only were they possible assistants to enslaved people and potential members of the labor force; their very existence undermined popular justifications for slavery. It is no surprise that, by...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
"Congratulations to Drs. Nembhard and Chiteji and the authors included in this much needed volume of work! Their book offers the perspective and insight of scholars of color that are too often missing from information produced by the asset building field (people and organizations seeking to help...
Trustee for the Human Community
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
by Tavis Smiley
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
In 2006, Tavis Smiley—along with a team of esteemed contributors—laid out a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans.The Covenant, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing...
"Cut from the Same Cloth"
A Collection of Smith Family Stories 1841 - 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Cynthias parents migrated, during the 1940s, moving from Texas to California, shortly after World War II. She was born in 1948, growing up in Berkeley, California. She came from a close-knit, hardworking family. She grew up hearing stories of family members and of times long ago in the lumber mill...
by Jawanza Kunjufu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Addressing the many unique academic challenges that face black males—from low self-esteem, absenteeism, fatherlessness, and gangs to not accepting middle-class values, the impact of hip-hop culture, and drugs—this book provides answers and hope to teachers and the afflicted students and their...
Crushed!
Navigating Africa’S Tortuous Quest for Development – Myths and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CRUSH-ED is not another whining story about the African experience, even though the title may lead in that direction. The title is really an acronym for the strategies that Africa (the sub-Saharan region in particular), must adopt if it is not to face extinction in the medium to long term. The book...
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for...
by Nia Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Although Vylette has been studying photography at USC and is finally about to graduate, she's not from Los Angeles and is still green as far as local etiquette about things such as art, public transit, and men. She's been living with Malik for two years, but their relationship is not exactly romantic.
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by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s...
by Jamila Jasper
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Full-figured, African American woman Moesha is trapped in an abusive relationship with no visible way out. Her boyfriend Chase is cruel and sadistic. Staying with him means constant pain, but leaving him means certain death.
He's a dangerous man and not the guy she thought he was. However,...
by Jamila Jasper
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
**Jam-packed with panty-dropping and page-turning love scenes between an alpha billionaire and a successful African-American businesswoman. This interracial romance novel is 52,000+ words of pure enchantment with a guaranteed HEA ending. Take a peek inside to get hooked on Rich & Indie's love...