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From Pain to Purpose: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

May 13, 2020 admin 0

by Sonja Pinckney Rhodes  (Author) – From Pain to Purpose is a journey of how strong the power of God is even in our darkest moments. When we have not acquired the knowledge of what our purpose […]

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Author Wins Pulitzer Prize for Book Based on Florida’s Dozier Reform School

May 8, 2020 Staff 0

Author Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” a book about a brutal reform school for black boys in the Jim Crow South, on Monday won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is the second time in […]

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize For ‘1619 Project’ Essay About Slavery

May 4, 2020 admin 0

Written By Bruce C.T. Wright – Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary for an essay that paved the way for The 1619 project, a series of essays about […]

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Kobe Bryant’s Latest Book to Debut Atop Best-Seller List

April 9, 2020 admin 0

Kobe Bryant is back atop the best-seller lists, days after the late Los Angeles Lakers superstar was selected to the Hall of Fame. The latest release from Bryant’s Granity Studios, “The Wizenard Series: Season One” […]

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American Poison’ Aims To Show How Race Is At The Root Of U.S. Problems

April 2, 2020 admin 0

How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter When journalist Eduardo Porter moved to Los Angeles in the 90s and started writing about the city, he realized race was everywhere — and that it determined […]

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The Great Migration’s Complicated Legacy

April 2, 2020 admin 0

By Theodore R. Johnson Marcia Chatelain, Kenisha Grant, Ted Johnson, and Mark Whitaker discuss the history of the Great Migration and how it reverberates in mass incarceration and voter suppression today. MICHAEL WALDMAN: Throughout the […]

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How to Survive and Thrive in a Recession

March 26, 2020 admin 0

By Teneshia LaFaye Teen mom and Raines High School graduate suffered through two recessions and a depression, but learned from those experiences to improve her mental health and learn how to thrive financially in any […]

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Books by black authors to savor while social distancing

March 26, 2020 admin 0

By Celina Colby VIEW BIO PHOTO: ADOBE STOCK Reading has long been an escape from the challenges of everyday life. While Bostonians stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s become more important than ever. […]

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Book Reviews: ‘The Undefeated’ and ‘A Place To Land’

March 24, 2020 admin 0

By Karen Juanita Carrillo Children’s books that can both promote literacy and history have to walk a very fine line. Over the years, we’ve all come across books that make an attempt to do this, […]

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Memoirs Of The Senator’s Wife by S. M. Ford

March 6, 2020 admin 0

Memoirs Of The Senator’s Wife is the international best selling saga of a dark romance involving a handsome politician, a forbidden love affair between the politician’s wife with a sensuous Secret Service agent, and the […]

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