The Black Poets
Title | The Black Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Dudley Randall |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1985-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0553275631 |
"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to the present day. It is important that folk poetry be included because it is the root and inspiration of later, literary poetry. Not only does this book present the full range of Black poetry, but it presents most poets in depths, and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. Gwendolyn Brooks is represented not only by poems on racial and domestic themes, but is revealed as a writer of superb love lyrics. Tuming away from White models and retuming to their roots has freed Black poets to create a new poetry. This book records their progress."--from the Introduction by Dudley Randall
She Stood for Freedom
Title | She Stood for Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Loki Mulholland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781629721774 |
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
Freedom
Title | Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastian Junger |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0008421838 |
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm
Freedom Just Around the Corner
Title | Freedom Just Around the Corner PDF eBook |
Author | Walter A. McDougall |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 2004-03-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0060197897 |
This new history of the United States is based on a global interpretation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. 7 maps.
The Only Certain Freedom
Title | The Only Certain Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Neill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2018-01-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781775172208 |
The Only Certain Freedom describes Patrick O'Neill's struggles to take control of his career path while connecting each twist and turn of his story to different ancient myths, clarifying the common threads of human struggle and illuminating the profound wisdom at the heart of human experience. A must-read for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
No Friend but the Mountains
Title | No Friend but the Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Behrouz Boochani |
Publisher | House of Anansi |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2019-02-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1487006845 |
Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. “Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard Flanagan
On the Other Side of Freedom
Title | On the Other Side of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | DeRay Mckesson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0525560572 |
"Hope and insight and empathy spring from every page. . . . [McKesson] stares down the faces of bigotry and unfreedom and cynicism and doesn't flinch in writing out our marching orders toward freedom." --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines. In August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation's complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism's wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom. Honest, courageous, and imaginative, On the Other Side of Freedom is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, On the Other Side of Freedom is a visionary's call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.