The Long Walk
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The Long Walk
Books , Kindle Edition / February 16, 2017

The Long Walk
In this #1 national bestseller, “master storyteller” (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives.In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual con…

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Books / February 10, 2017

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement The award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure,” this is a gripping first-hand account of the fight for civil rights and the courage it takes to change a nation.In 1957, a teenaged boy named John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alab…

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Books , Kindle Edition / February 9, 2017

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today’s…

We Should All Be Feminists
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We Should All Be Feminists
Books , Kindle Edition / February 3, 2017

We Should All Be Feminists
What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity…

The Black Presidency- Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Books , Kindle Edition / February 2, 2017

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America’s first black presidency, from “one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today” (Vanity Fair). Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Bara…