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Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"The fabulous 60s takes a kaleidoscopic look back at this most turbulent of decades, ten tumultuous years that began in hope with man's exploration of space and the youngest elec[t]ed President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy-- and ended in a welter of Cold War intrigue, political assassination, civil unrest, student demonstration and US involvement in another war in a country known as Vietnam."--Container.
9) With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of black community activism
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, co-founder of Ms. Magazine and trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women's movement"--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There are burglaries and heists and robberies, but few thefts in history can match what Baby Boomers have done to millenials since 2008: they stole their children's economic futures right out from under them. Millenials should have everything going for them. America has never been so prosperous, the world has never been so interconnected, and no generation has ever been as educated or resourceful as today's young adults. Yet when the finanical crisis...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities-stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and other state-sanctioned policies like redlining-have tangible, far-reaching, and negative economic and social impacts. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives, this book gives fresh insights on these impacts and provides a new value paradigm to limit them. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Moments after the inauguration of our 45th President, best friends Barack Obama and Joe Biden were escorted to a secret lab run by the world s greatest scientists. They were asked to take off all their clothes and hold very still in a fetal position until they felt a painful tingling sensation. Then they vanished. They would awake to find themselves apart, and inside their younger bodies driven to find each other and change history for the better....
16) UNICORN WOMAN
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal. Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National BookAward finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook...
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