Terrell has problems. He lives in a small old apartment. His mother has to work so hard he hardly gets to see her. His English teacher keeps blaming him for things. Two bullies seem to be able to get away with making his life miserable. Animals follow him wherever he goes. Shadows seem to be watching him and a dragon took his father away.When he finds his father's magical flute hidden under his mother's bed, he begins his journey in a mystical land of elves, ogres, and dragons. His...

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you, “We need Mister Rogers more than ever.” This audio collection features interviews with fans, friends, and colleagues whose lives were changed by the simple wisdom and kindness of Fred Rogers. For the first time you’ll hear both celebrities and everyday people tell their stories of how Mister Rogers affected them and, in some cases, even saved their lives.As incredible as it may sound, Fred Rogers personally answered every letter he received. Hearing ...

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Idris Elba, Blair Underwood, Taraji P. Henson, ...

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture.

Popularly known as India's latterday Jim Corbett and 'tiger man', 87-year-old Billy Arjan Singh is by any standards an extraordinary man. At Tiger Haven, his home in a magical spot on the edge of the jungle in UP, Singh's experiments with bringing up three orphaned leopards, and also Tara, a tiger cub that he imported from a zoo in England, shot him into both limelight and controversy. His aim was to see if Tara's instincts would make her revert to the wild when she became mature. They did...

Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western concepts of art and taste, and vernacular musical forms like blues and jazz to provide a frame for t...

"Notes on the Trial of William (Billy) Davis" dives deep into the actualities of a labor union strike and company lockout at two small steel moulding plants in rural Indiana during 1924-25. Following an explosion at a hotel housing strike breakers, 50 union and nonunion men were charged with conspiracy to possess and set a bomb. This book focuses on the true, well-documented facts leading up to the explosion and its aftermath. Specifically, it recounts the trial of Welsh immigrant, William...

Il più importante genere musicale afroamericano degli anni successivi alla schiavitù fu senza dubbio il blues. Nato all'incrocio tra l'eredità della tradizione sacra degli spiritual e quella sociale dei canti di lavoro, affinò le tecniche della musica di schiave e schiavi in cui la resistenza era espressa in maniera sottintesa, comprensibile solo da coloro che ne possedevano il codice. Analizzando quegli aspetti dei testi e delle performance di Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith e Billie H...

"Billy and the Big Stick" is a fictional story that is loosely inspired by the life and actions of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. In the story, the character Billy is a courageous and adventurous young man who finds himself in various daring situations, much like Roosevelt was known for his adventurous spirit.The title of the story, "Billy and the Big Stick," alludes to Roosevelt's famous foreign policy slogan, "speak softly and carry a big stick," which empha...

In "Billy and the Big Stick," Richard Harding Davis employs a lively narrative style imbued with humor and vibrant imagery to explore themes of childhood adventure and moral growth. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, the story follows the young protagonist, Billy, as he embarks on a series of escapades that reflect both the innocence of youth and the burgeoning national identity of the United States. The book is enriched by Davis's keen observations of social dynamics ...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

\"Opposing Forces\" presents itself as an alternative to overcoming the great duality that exists in each one of us. How many times in life are we faced with situations in which both alternatives have favorable and unfavorable circumstances and the act of choosing one of them becomes true martyrdom. We must learn to reflect and think carefully about which the true path to be followed is and the consequences of that choice. Finally, we need to assemble the \"opposing forces\" of our lives a...