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A Saint on Death Row
The Story of Dominique Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Bestselling author Thomas Cahill tells the absorbing, heartbreaking tale of the hard life and tragic death of Dominique Green—wrongly accused, then executed in Huntsville, Texas—and shines a light on our racist and deeply flawed criminal justice system.
Green, an extraordinary young man from...
by Christopher Darden
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller. For more than a year, Christopher Darden argued tirelessly for the prosecution, giving voice to the victims in the 0.J. Simpson murder trial. In Contempt is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships...
The Emergency Teacher
The Inspirational Story of a New Teacher in an Inner-City School
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, faced with 1,500 teacherless classrooms, instituted a policy...
by marty red
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
a telling of what happens to us when our Central Nervous System breaks down,this is my journey...
Teaching While Black
A New Voice on Race and Education in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Teaching should never be color-blind. In a world where many believe the best approach toward eradicating racism is to feign ignorance of our palpable physical differences, a few have led the movement toward convincing fellow educators not only to consider race but to use it as the very basis of their...
Colour Bar
The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2007
Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into exile in England, banned from his own country. His...
Under Our Skin
Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Can it ever get better? This is the question Benjamin Watson is asking. In a country aflame with the fallout from the racial divide—in which Ferguson, Charleston, and the Confederate flag dominate the national news, daily seeming to rip the wounds open ever wider—is there hope for honest and healing...
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Favorite Books of 2018" The Greater Good Magazine
Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University...
by Adrian Matejka
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in Poetry—a collection that examines the myth and history of the prizefighter Jack Johnson
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent...
Thriving in an All-Boys Club
Female Police and Their Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it’s been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of their struggles to fit in and survive in this...
Clooney's War
South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new...
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A groundbreaking, must-read history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of slaves
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so...
Between Slavery and Capitalism
The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Works: A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave + The Heroic Slave + My Bondage and My Freedom + Life and Times of Frederick Douglass + My Escape from Slavery + Self-Made Men + Speeches & Writings” contains 7 books in one...