Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Was the Author of The Three Musketeers a Black Man?
Alexandre Dumas wrote some of the best-known literature, but few people know about his personal life–or ethnicity.
Read MoreDr. James Cameron Featured in New Book about Supersurvivors!
Supersurvivors explores extraordinary accomplishments in the wake of catastrophe to explain how ordinary people achieve extraordinary things.
Read MoreWhere Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?
Walter Dean Myers writes about how children’s books do not often represent the Black children who read them.
Read More12 Years a Slave to Be Part of Public High School Curriculum
Montel Williams is using his celebrity to introduce 12 Years a Slave into educational settings where students can learn about history.
Read MoreHow White Ideals Color US Race Relations
One author tackles a tired, racism belief about economic disparities and what–if anything–they say about work ethic.
Read MoreAmerica’s ‘angriest’ theologian faces lynching tree
James Cone’s memoir describes growing up during the Jim Crow era and the righteous anger it inspired in him.
Read MorePublic Schools Constrain Blacks, Author Says
Lisa Delpit’s latest book, “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children, is another installment in the author’s crusade to expose the systemic issues with America’s public education system, and their effects on a growing achievement gap between whites and minorities.
Read More“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Published This Date in 1852
Harriet Beecher’s groundbreaking book heralded changing times and attitudes toward Black Americans before the Civil War.
Read MoreDear White America: New book examines anxieties of America’s dwindling majority.
Anti-racist activist and author Tim Wise is back with another witty and no-holds-barred take on race and America’s changing demographics. White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation.
Read MoreSome Say Re-election Fear Is Driving Gun Sales In Texas, Elsewhere
“I’m constantly getting questions from people in the gun community about this [issue],” said Alan Korwin, author of nine gun law books, including Gun Laws of America. “People are concerned that if Obama wins, as a lame duck, he will go after firearms in a way we have never seen before. We saw a fire…
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