With Central City’s Joy and Pain, Jerome E. Morris explores complex social issues through personal narrative. He does so by blending social-science research with his own memoir of life in Birmingham, Alabama. As someone who lived in the Central City housing project for two transitional decades (1968–91) and whose family continued to reside there until 1999, when the city razed the community, the author provides us with the often unexplored bottom-up perspective on Black public-hou...

Based on extensive fieldwork in schools and communities in St. Louis and Atlanta,Troubling the Waterscaptures the experiences of today’s African American families like no other book. Reframing the debates around urban schooling, Jerome Morris offers an empirically based, research foundation for a new scholarly movement in African American’s quest for quality schooling. In this contemporary critique, Morris counters the views by neoconservatives that racism no longer ex...

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people have developed ways to free themselves mentally from the legacies of slavery, the view ...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational Research Association, presents a collection of chapters from across disciplines to further understand...

Father Act In The Hour deals with the very important element of "Fatherhood" and the comparison between Abba Father as our Heavenly Father and the earthly, biological father as it relates to the responsibilities towards our families. As Abba Father has a responsibility towards His children, so too does the biological father have a sole responsibility to impart wisdom, knowledge, insight and understanding with a clear vision and direction the family need to follow.It looks at the fu...

Poverty is plaguing the lives of many Christians because they are ignorant of how to overcome this enemy of mankind.Poverty has killed many people and has demoted a lot destinies in so many ways. The Author in this book gives the keys to resist this dangerous enemy. Also herein, he gives the conditions for God's blessing.This book will promote your destiny. Don't miss it.

The companion book to the PBS series—a timeline and chronicle of the fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise explores a half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has had a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies—as ...

It is no longer news that the home has been under severe attacks. Marriage and the family have been receiving deadly blows from Satan and his angels.Many people have suffered terribly due to lack of knowledge concerning what it takes to safeguard their homes.The author has provided a spiritual disinfectant from keeping the home safe and healthy. The prayer points, the biblical teachings and the practical illustrations will show you the steps which you must take in order to m...

NAACP Image Award Finalist: "Boyd's riveting new history…turns an oft-caricatured community into a world of actual, struggling human beings."—Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeA Michigan Notable Books HonoreeIn this book, the author of Baldwin's Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit—in "a blend of memoir, love letter, history, and clear-eyed reportage that explores...

In this compelling and compassionate book, Dr. Creflo A. Dollar gives clear, practical principles that will banish fear and anxiety from readers' lives.

What if the quality and outcome of your life are not determined by luck, chance, or circumstances, but by laws?In December 2009, while preparing to cross into the New Year, the author received a profound revelation from God concerning the Laws of Life. Through this divine insight, he came to understand that every aspect of life operates according to established laws and principles. Just as physical laws govern the natural world, spiritual and practical laws govern ...

Instant New York Times BestsellerAn urgent primer on race and racism, from Emmanuel Acho, an American Football Legend and host of the viral hit video series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.'I really love this' – Jada Pinkett Smith'What Emmanuel Acho has to say is important' – Matthew McConaughey