In this simultaneously intellectual and ghetto work, Victor Smith opens up the long time coming discussion regarding race and culture in the United States, particularly from the perspective of being the only black man there. With a unique outlook and attitude, Smith will challenge your previously held assumptions and beliefs. He argues that there are connections - if you look for them - between history, popular culture, and the treatment of black...

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny,...

Summary of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Includes Analysis Preview: The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing "War on Drugs" and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system. America's current racial caste system builds upon the legacy of both chattel slavery...

This is a book about an unlikely friendship between two boys from different ethnicities in 1940s Montgomery, Alabama. One boy is Caucasian and the other boy is African-American. The friendship was frowned upon during the years of segregation of the races. The story tells of how the friendship was the transformational event that shaped how the Caucasian boy viewed race during the turmoil of civil unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. The Caucasian boy became...

This is a brilliant and provocative work, and Robert L. Lattimer has captured the essence of our current time for constructive protest based on our nation's principles of liberty, freedom, opportunity, and achievement for all Americans, that the promise of American diversity means that if Black lives don't matter, no lives do. In this book, Lattimer has truly presented the Soul of America.

Interviews of 18 people involved in work impacting urban environments in Pittsburgh and beyond.

Guerra de razas. Negros contra blancos en Cuba. Rafael Conte Mayolino y José M. Capmany Fragmento de la obra I. LUCHA DE RAZAS El movimiento insurreccional cuyas postreras vibraciones estremecen todavía las montañas orientales, ha sido un brote racista, una protesta armada de los negros contra los blancos, de los antiguos siervos contra los antiguos señores. Suponer otra cosa, atribuirle otro carácter, sería pueril y absurdo, y acusaría...

From "I CAN'T BREATHE" to 'BLACK LIVES MATTER', How George Floyd's Tragic Death Changed America - The Complete Diary of the Events by David SereroMay 25, 2020, is a date that no one will ever forget. That day, we all saw the terrible death of George Floyd on social media. Sitting at the computer in his New York apartment, opera singer, producer, and author David Serero witnessed this horrific video, which went viral and made headlines on every news...

"Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with hackers...

In Deep Are the Roots, Stephen Bourne celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first Black-led theatre company. In addition to providing a long-overdue critique of Laurence Olivier's Othello, too-often cited as the zenith of the role, Bourne has unearthed the forgotten...