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Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar is a biochemist-turned-coffee-shop-owner in denial about his divorce and grieving his stillborn daughter. Chemicals killed their child, leaching from a type of plant the government is hiding in Black neighborhoods. Kenny's coping mechanisms are likewise chemical and becoming more baroque--from daily injections of lethal snake venom to manufacturing designer drugs. As his grief turns corrosive, it taints every person he touches....
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Step into Tyler Perry's neighborhood, peel back the rough exterior, and behold! Get on the laugh wagon as some of your favorite stage stars strut, sing, and remind us, no matter how tough it gets, that laughter, faith, and love are the best remedies.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Students will learn more about America's thriving Black communities, from Tulsa's Black Wall Street to Allensworth, California. These towns and neighborhoods are often ignored in discussions on Black America and their success was often met with resistance--often violent resistance. This book illuminates the achievement and culture of these communities, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope because Baltimore was the first city in America to enact segregationist legislation and because it remains hypersegregated to this day. "Black butterfly" describes the shape of a demographic map that plots Baltimore's population by race: a white central axis with black wings east and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. Thirty-four square blocks of Tulsa's Greenwood community, then known as the "Negro Wall Street of America", were reduced to smoldering rubble. And now, decades later, the death toll of what was known as the Tulsa Race...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Author
Publisher
Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn has a distinct story in the history of social justice. Explore the rich history of New York City's second largest borough, and the thriving nineteenth-century free Black community that once called it home"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A meditation on how America protects and overinvests in "white space" and disinvests, surveils, and stereotypes in "the Hood;" Cashin calls for abolition of these anti-Black processes and bold new investment to repair poor Black neighborhoods and our broken race relations"--
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