In Moving Up, Moving Out**, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly-mobile African Americans.** Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individ...

From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald’s operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long-overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. To...

I Will Sing of His Mercies cries out, "Come and read me if you want to laugh, cry, and play with the author."When you are finished with this unique book, you will come away singing of His mercies.This is a delightful little book. It includes the author's memoirs, a section on the author's parents and grandparents, and amazing poetry. You will laugh with the author as she talks about her whimsical childhood, cringe when she tells her story of suffering with severe b...

The novel by William Pierce has inspired terrorists like Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik. This booklet explores the Diaries, fascism, and the end times.