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Financial Empowerment in the African American Church
Examining the Attitudes of Congregants to Adopt Christian Stewardship and Debt Management Principles
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This work captures the historical and cultural context for financial literacy in the twenty-first century in view of the Great Recession of 2008 to 2009.
by Lolo Ncube-Murape
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
South of Happy traces the life of Khanya, who was born in England in 1971 to Rhodesian parents. When their country gains independence from Britain in 1980, the family move back to the Southern African country of Zimbabwe, and Khanya struggles to find acceptance in an environment filled with hostility....
by Patricia Anne Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
A Lost Memory. . .
After journalist Wanda Gray's plane crashes in Kenya, searchers find no survivors, and she is believed dead. But Wanda is very much alive, injured and slowly recovering on an African ranch. She remembers nothing of her former life--not her accountant husband Steven or even her...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those...
by Okang'a Ooko
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
KISUMu chronicles the journey of an African musician. It is a 1980s far echo of African music noir, it tells the story musicians working in Kenya. A young musician is fighting to beat the odds in his own way in a town he knows so well. As a leader of music freaks in Kisumu's nefarious darkness, he...
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts...
Views from My Window
"Opening Closed Doors"
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Often called a modern day storyteller, Von Washingtons plays explore the social and psychological difficulties associated with being an African American living in modern day America. His insightful, action packed, emotional plays reveal the pain and laughter of men, women, and children fighting to...
"We Dare Say Love"
Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“We Dare Say Love” takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group...
Mercy, Mercy Me
African-American Culture and the American Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2001
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book argues that American artistry in the 1960s can be understood as one of the most vital and compelling interrogations of modernity. James C. Hall finds that the legacy of slavery and the resistance to it have by necessity made African Americans among the...
by Omotayo Olaoye
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
“My Africa” is a story of Waro and his son, Ade who was born into an African royal family setting. Ade survived on the day of his birth by a mere chance and he was growing up to see many wrong beliefs of his people. After much struggles with his kinsmen and community, he finally fulfilled his...
Hi-de-ho:The Life of Cab Calloway
The Life of Cab Calloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first full-length biography of Cab...
Phillis Wheatley
Biography of a Genius in Bondage
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?–1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman—of any race or background— to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and...
The Beast Side
Living (and Dying) While Black in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A New York Times Best Seller!
To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri,...
by Claude Andrew Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head...