Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Ame...

Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Ame...

Instead of one black America, today there are four.“There was a time when there were agreed-upon 'black leaders,' when there was a clear 'black agenda,' when we could talk confidently about 'the state of black America'—but not anymore.” —from DisintegrationThe African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, ...

In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself -- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly where to look -- or rather, to listen. In this provocative work, Robinson takes us on a sweat...

The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Now, instead of one, there are four distinct groups: a Mainstream middle-class majority with a solid stake ...

A compilation of poetic works that expresses the human condition threw the parallels of music and love. This piece aims to explore, uncover, and reveal the harmonies that exists between rhythmic sounds and the most powerful emotions: Love

— Deux heures seulement ! s’écriait, en arpentant les six pieds carrés qui formaient son cabinet de travail, un jeune rentier nommé Horace du Bellay. Décidément, les jours sont d’une longueur insupportable !... que faire pour tuer le temps ?... J’ai Paris en exécration, tout m’ennuie, tout me pèse, et les plaisirs que je cherchais hier m’énervent aujourd’hui... Oh ! je m’ennuie !...Et, ce disant, du Bellay se jeta dans un fauteuil, la mâchoire contractée par un bâillement homérique...

A rollicking no-holds barred memoir from journalist and musician Eugene S. Robinson that takes readers along through the story of his life.“A weird rollicking ride” frames how author Eugene S. Robinson views his journey from a Brooklyn kid with decidedly offbeat punk rock proclivities to the realities of California hardcore and dark detours into shows, tours, drugs, porn, guns, MMA fighting, an Ivy League-esque education and his eventual entry into the US Defense i...

Helps Christian leaders understand how to provide effective leadership by highlighting five qualities that characterized the leadership style of Jesus.Bill Robinson presents convincing arguments that when leaders emulate these qualities, they will inspire and empower the people they have been called to lead. Reflection and discussion questions and assessment questions make this ideal for group use. Conversational in tone and seasoned with real-life stories from his...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

Helps Christian leaders understand how to provide effective leadership by highlighting five qualities that characterized the leadership style of Jesus.Bill Robinson presents convincing arguments that when leaders emulate these qualities, they will inspire and empower the people they have been called to lead. Reflection and discussion questions and assessment questions make this ideal for group use. Conversational in tone and seasoned with real-life stories from his...

Evento central para a fé cristã, a ressurreição do Filho de Deus parece um tema a ser revisitado apenas anualmente, na Páscoa. Não é o que pensa Eugene Peterson. Para ele, a ressurreição vai além da dimensão eterna, é um acontecimento que impacta o cotidiano cristão. Com seu estilo acolhedor e sua mensagem clara, Peterson reexamina as narrativas da ressurreição presentes nos Evangelhos e sugere disciplinas espirituais capazes de revigorar a fé, independentemente das circunstâncias em que e...