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A More Unbending Battle
The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below-better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
In...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest...
Some of Us Did Not Die
New and Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers
A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers is the first and only comprehensive collection of the words of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers. Evers became a leader of the civil rights movement during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He established NAACP chapters throughout the Mississippi delta region, and...
Stokely
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael would stand for...
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to...
Racial Paranoia
The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness The New Reality of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And yet America remains divided...
It's a Jungle Out There
The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For all of you humming I Will Survive” while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you’re ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of those Mars versus Venus books, this book is...
by Michael Eric Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Acclaimed for his writing on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tupac Shakur, and many more, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African-American intellectual of his generation. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's vast and growing body of work from the last several years: his most...
Dark Days, Bright Nights
From Black Power to Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Civil Rights Movement is now remembered as a long-lost era, which came to an end along with the idealism of the 1960s. In Dark Days, Bright Nights, acclaimed scholar Peniel E. Joseph puts this pat assessment to the test, showing the 60s-particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the...
The Sh!t No One Tells You
A Guide to Surviving Your Baby's First Year
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
A laugh-out-loud guide to the first year of motherhood, filled with helpful advice and wisdom from real moms and dads who aren't at all afraid to tell it like it is
There comes a time in every new mother's life when she finds herself staring at her screaming, smelly "bundle of joy"...
Mending the World
Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American...
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received...
Pretty Neat
The Buttoned-Up Way to Get Organized and Let Go of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Negative self-image. Fantasy-induced overspending. Marital tension. A new kind of airbrushed concoction is wreaking havoc on homes and psyches, and Sarah Welch and Alicia Rockmore have a name for it: org porn. It’s in magazines, coffee table books, advertisements, and TV shows, promoting a perfect...