Who makes the decisions about your child's safety and security when you send them off to school each day? What does a truly safe school look like? It's time to talk about what the parenting books don't teach you: the unmentionable events that occur in US schools every year and how to try to prevent them with invaluable information.Every time you turn on the news, it seems like there is another active threat on a school in the United States. It is 100% certain that another school sh...

This investigative account details how America's economic and intelligence associations with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan led to the devastating September 11 attacks and illustrates the role that private military companies are playing in George W. Bush's "new world order." Based on personal interviews, never-before-published classified documents, and extensive research, this examination details the criminal forces thought to rule the world today—the Bush cartel, Russian-Ukranian-Israeli mafia...

Before LinkedIn, before venture capital, before accelerators and pitch competitions — there was the church lobby. The parking lot after service. The deacon who knew a contractor. The church mother who sat on the school board. The usher who ran a printing business and gave a young man his first job.The Black church didn't just save souls. It built banks. It launched insurance companies. It funded schools. It organized boycotts and voter drives that changed the course of American law....

Corporate America doesn't have a diversity problem. It has an honesty problem. Diary of a Corporate Black Employee pulls back the curtain on the unspoken systems that shape corporate life-systems that promise belonging but often deliver something very different. Through lived experience, sharp observation, and unfiltered insight, Kenn Wayne takes readers inside the quiet mechanics of modern workplace culture: the language of "family," the illusion of open doors, the pressure to assimilate,...

Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques that can legitimize modern historicity, philosophy and architectural theory.Arguing that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a linguistic practice, operate...

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined as circumstances change, Wayne argues, and as a consequence the boundaries of black Am...

Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America, Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined as circumstances change, Wayne argues, and as a consequence the boundaries of black Am...

A moving memoir exploring one family's legacy of African Americans with American Indian roots.Finalist, 2024 American Legacy Book Awards, Autobiography/MemoirBlack Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony—only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, alcoholism, and old r...

After breaking their sworn oaths in a fit of forbidden passion, a sacrificial bride (Shekalane) and her fearsome escort (the ferryman Dravidian) find themselves alone and on the run in the subterranean river-world of Ursathrax.From Beyond the Black Curtain:Permission would not have been granted, nor did he ask; instead, he went straight to the detention block after his meeting with the prefect and located Shekalane's cell. It was easy to do, for it was the only one...

In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles–based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old rank-and-file member of the ...

What does it take to heal the soul of the black man? Healing the Souls of Black Men by Dr. Wayne C. Cooper, offers a comprehensive pathway for capturing the essence of black men's struggles and accomplishments in the contemporary world forged with racism and prejudices. From paralyzing fear to endless strength, from brokenness to wholeness, this book proposes solutions to tackle the hard phases of life with easy implementation tools. Going from overcoming stereotyping and mental health iss...

Scholarship on Black internationalism has experienced a revival. Whilst this scholarship has increasingly turned towards examining Du Bois's thoughts on the “color line” in a global rather than national context, none do so by centering his Ethiopian-centered perspective. This book provides an examination of Du Bois's efforts to link African Americans, Afro-Caribbean, and the Pan African project to Ethiopia as a response to the emerging question of Black historical identity.For Du B...