Download or read book White Guy on the Bus written by Bruce Graham and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Week after week, a wealthy white businessman rides the same bus, befriending a single black mom. As they get to know one another, their pasts unfold and tensions rise, igniting a disturbing and crucial exploration of race.

Download or read book Sack Exchange written by Greg Prato and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'New York Sack Exchange' was the nickname given to the all-conquering New York Jets defensive line of the early 1980s, consisting of Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and Abdul Salaam. Comprised of nearly 50 all-new, exclusive interviews with Jets players, head coaches and those closest to the organisation, Sack Exchange is not only an eye-opening account of the Jets from this time, but also of the NFL in general.

Download or read book The Crazy Old White Man from the Hood written by Lee Gaylord and published by Publish America LLC. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crazy Old White Man was the street name given to the author when he lived in the hood. It is about his life and how he became The Crazy Old White Man and those who were a part of his life during that time. You will get a look at the drug culture and the streets of Detroit. You will meet addicts and people of the streets. The author pulls no punches and is honest and straightforward about the events in his life. There are some success stories and some failures. There are some laughs and some tears. It is real life, and it shows that the people of the streets are normal people who may have made a wrong turn in life. They are lost souls who need to find themselves.

Download or read book Racetalk written by Kristen A. Myers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on over 600 incidents of racetalk among whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, this book examines private racism. Using a dialectical analysis, this book examines the ways that everyday people help to reproduce racism through their common interactions. Visit out website for sample chapters!

Download or read book Panam Sketches written by Warren R. Johnson and published by Second Harvest Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After traveling the United States, Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe, I moved to Panamá lock stock and barrel. I arrived in the popular expat town of Boquete. I planned to travel around Panamá for some unknown period of time. However, the panic of Covid-19 kept me pinned down. I had begun a travel blog, but now I couldn’t travel. What was I to do? I wrote about the minimal travels I could do and wrote about the places in Panamá I wanted to visit. The blog became somewhat of an educational blog. I learned where I wanted to go and wrote about those places. I also wrote about my life in Boquete.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Melanin Sojourner written by Kenneth A. Hordge Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Melanin Sojourner (Curiosity and Courage) is about the journey of an African American born male who grows up with an extraordinary curiosity about life and his place in it. At first the curiosities are general, but soon graduate to a strong desire for an answer to the ultimate question; what is the meaning of life? The search takes him around the world, exploring various cultures, religions, and societies along with that of his own. His experiences through over a half a century of living have brought him to a conclusion about the answer, and his role here on earth. This is the authors second published book and the completion of a goal to publish his life experiences. Through each chapter, you will read about experiences that show the authors failures, weaknesses, and misgivings, as well as his curiosity, courage, and strength. It is the authors hope that the lessons hes learned will help others who are seeking answers to lifes questions and curiosities, by finding the courage to handle lifes challenges.

Download or read book Radical Equations written by Robert Moses and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Algebra Project, a community-based effort to develop math-science literacy in disadvantaged schools—as told by the program’s founder “Bob Moses was a hero of mine. His quiet confidence helped shape the civil rights movement, and he inspired generations of young people looking to make a difference”—Barack Obama At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside—national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors—the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities. Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities—parents, teachers, and especially students—to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity. Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: “Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want.” We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years. Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools.

Download or read book The Marines of Montford Point written by Melton A. McLaurin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. Between 1942 and 1949 (when the base was closed as a result of President Truman's 1948 order fully desegregating all military forces) more than 20,000 men trained at Montford Point, most of them going on to serve in the Pacific Theatre in World War II as members of support units. This book, in conjunction with the documentary film of the same name, tells the story of these Marines for the first time. Drawing from interviews with 60 veterans, The Marines of Montford Point relates the experiences of these pioneers in their own words. From their stories, we learn about their reasons for enlisting; their arrival at Montford Point and the training they received there; their lives in a segregated military and in the Jim Crow South; their experiences of combat and service in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam; and their legacy. The Marines speak with flashes of anger and humor, sometimes with sorrow, sometimes with great wisdom, and always with a pride fostered by incredible accomplishment in the face of adversity. This book serves to recognize and to honor the men who desegregated the Marine Corps and loyally served their country in three major wars.

Download or read book The Boys on the Bus written by Timothy Crouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheap booze. Flying fleshpots. Lack of sleep. Endless spin. Lying pols. Just a few of the snares lying in wait for the reporters who covered the 1972 presidential election. Traveling with the press pack from the June primaries to the big night in November, Rolling Stone reporter Timothy Crouse hopscotched the country with both the Nixon and McGovern campaigns and witnessed the birth of modern campaign journalism. The Boys on the Bus is the raucous story of how American news got to be what it is today. With its verve, wit, and psychological acumen, it is a classic of American reporting. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

Download or read book Who s Afraid of Post Blackness written by Touré and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, "one of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, Black, and middle-class in contemporary America...told in a distinctive voice that is often humorous...but always intensely engaging" (Orlando Patterson, The New York Times). In this provocative book, writer and cultural critic Tour explores the concept of Post-Blackness: the ability for someone to be rooted in but not restricted by their race. Drawing on his own experiences and those of 105 luminaries, he argues that racial identity should be understood as fluid, complex, and self-determined.

Download or read book The Soda Jerk written by Frederick Thomas Golder and published by Beachfront Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world's greatest soda jerk!" Says who? Harvey. Harvey Keck's lifelong ambition is to make the world happy, one malted milkshake at a time. His singular ambition is to be known as the world's greatest soda jerk. Problem is, Harvey Keck sees things in his own unique way. He turns logic on its head and displays a stunning lack of self-awareness. He is "The Most Oblivious Man with a Plan." Reader Beware: If you have an aversion to spending quality time reading an autobiography of a clueless goofball who comes across as a know-it-all, put this book down right now and walk away. Don't crack open this book, even to read a random section. Otherwise, you will not be able to put this book down until you have finished it, based solely on the presumption that you will eventually find some redeeming quality in Harvey Keck's surreal life story.

Download or read book Kenny Riley and Black Union Labor Power in the Port of Charleston written by Ted Reed and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their ancestors may have been cargo in the slave ships that arrived in Charleston, S.C. Today, the scale has been rebalanced: black longshoremen run the port's cargo operation. They are members of the International Longshoremen's Association, a powerful labor union, and Kenny Riley is the charismatic leader of the Charleston local. Riley combines commitment to the civil rights movement with the practicality to ensure that Charleston remains a principal East Coast port. He emerged on the international stage in 2000, rallying union members worldwide to the defense of "The Charleston Five," longshoremen arrested after a confrontation with police turned violent. This is Riley's story as well as a behind-the-scenes look at organized black labor in a Deep South port.

Download or read book Constant Visions written by Alan Hines and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constant Visions is a variety of different poems in an enchanting array of how I vision things.

Download or read book Project Boy written by Roney E. Boyd Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an autobiography of the places, people, and incidents that Roney can recall during his journey from adolescent to early adulthood. He will take you back to some of his earliest memories of growing up just down the street from Arthur Ashe to his traumatic moments in Vietnam.

Download or read book This Is Love written by Alan Hines and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely love at it's very essence, love being a blessing. Poetry.

Download or read book Great God A Mighty the Dixie Hummingbirds written by Jerry Zolten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop. Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds shows how, in a career spanning more than nine decades, they pointed the way from pure a cappella harmony to guitar-driven soul to pop-stardom crossover, collaborating with artists like Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon along the way. Drawing on interviews with founding and quintessential members as well as many of the pop luminaries influenced by the Hummingbirds, author Jerry Zolten tells their story from rising up and out of the segregated South in the twenties and thirties to success on Philadelphia radio and the New York City stage in the forties to grueling tours in the fifties and over the long haul a brilliant recording career that carried well over into the 21st century. The story of the Dixie Hummingbirds is a tale of determined young men who navigated the troubled waters of racial division and the cutthroat business of music on the strength of raw talent, vision, character, and perseverance, and made an indelible name for themselves in American cultural history. This heavily edited 2nd edition features brand new photographs, expanded historical context, and a full new chapter on the Hummigbirds' trajectory up to the 21st century.

Download or read book Cupcakes Lies Dead Guys written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond Media. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie Graceland: Cheesehead. Unwed. Hi-LAR-ious baker who speaks to 'The Dead!' “So much fun! …Ghost Whisperer with Stephanie Plum’s crazy world!” Wendy Luvs2Read LOL, feel-good ANNIE GRACELAND mysteries are STAND ALONES. __ I'm Annie Graceland -- a Midwestern baker with a pinch of psychic ability living in the City of Angels. When Dr. Derrick Fuller -- the self-help guru to 'the Stars' as well as the man who ruined my marriage is murdered with a poisoned cupcake -- I'm suddenly a suspect. My marriage tanks and my baking business hits the skids. But the frosting on the cake is when Fuller’s ghost haunts me, nagging me to find his murderer. Now I’m infiltrating the lives of actors, producers, and other goofy Hollywood elites. What could possibly go wrong? PRAISE: ★★★★★ "Move over Sookie and Stephanie! ..." ~ Melissa Black Ford, Author ★★★★★ “…The characters are so lovable and funny!” ~ A. Reviewer ★★★★★ “funny… reminds me a bit of authors like Janet Evanovich or Lisa Lutz.” ~ An Actress Also available in Audio and Print. Annie Graceland mysteries are Stand Alones. Also available in Print and Audio 1 Click Dead Guys!