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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author coordinated with tech companies to provide employment to the world's poorest communities, outlining theories about economic agency through job programs while sharing the stories of people who have benefited from her successes.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A candid and riveting memoir from the founder of Harlem Children's Zone, taking readers through his Canada in which violence stalked every street corner.
Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for “Superman”,...
Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members Project spots, and documentaries like Waiting for “Superman”,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
“Agee’s prose poem captures the textural variety of Brooklyn in language that bears reading aloud for its lilt, melody, and pleasingly pungent vocabulary.” —Booklist (starred review)
For the first time in book form—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Foreword by Jonathan Lethem, author Motherless Brooklyn
In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on...
For the first time in book form—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Foreword by Jonathan Lethem, author Motherless Brooklyn
In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on...
9464) King in the wilderness
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful...
9465) A class divided
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Documents a reunion of Iowa teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970, subjects that year of an ABC News television documentary entitled "The eye of the storm". Shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination had a lasting effect on the lives of the students. Includes scenes of her lesson being used in a prison setting.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the international spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan on the community's main square. Journalists and protestors flooded the town, and hate groups rallied to the establishment's defense, dredging up the long history...
9467) Sasha & Malia Obama
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the lives of historic first kids Sasha and Malia Obama.
9470) Because Claudette
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A picture book about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--Provided by publisher.
9471) Mean girls: senior year
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After struggling to survive the wild events at Northshore High School the year before, Cady learned her lesson and is swearing off drama. It's all about good grades, SAT prep, and college applications from here on out-but the new transfer student Megan Moretti isn't about to let Cady stay focused. Megan is determined to rise to the top of the popularity food chain and become a new Plastic, so Cady, Regina, Gretchen and Karen have to band together...
9472) Black Internet effect
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Musician and technology phenom Shavone Charles explores how curiosity and nerve led her from a small college in Merced, California, to some of the most influential spaces in the tech world: from Google to Twitter to eventually landing a spot on the coveted Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Grateful for being the first in many spaces, but passionate about being neither the last nor the only, Charles tells her story in the hopes of guiding others and shaping...
9473) Beauty pop: 7
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Shojo beat manga edition.
Language
English
Description
"Kiri is undecided about what career she wants to pursue after graduation, but for Narumi it's plain and simple--he's always wanted to become a professional hairstylist. Can Narumi's passion help persuade Kiri to face her dreams?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Bornstein shares her story: from a nice Jewish boy growing up in New Jersey to a strappingly handsome lieutenant of the Church of Scientology's Sea Organization flagship vessel, and later to 1990s Seattle, where she becomes a rising star in the lesbian community. In between there are wives and lovers, heartbreak and triumph, bridges mended and broken, and a journey of self-discovery that will mesmerize readers."--Jacket.
9476) Negroland: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child: "[as if] we were protected, as if the whole neighborhood was watching our backs for threats, watching for all the enemies...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision's longtime anchorman and widely considered the "voice of the voiceless" within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Revised & updated third edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Huegel Madrone provides realistic advice for teens who are LGBTQ, questioning whether they might be, or are just interested in knowing more about LGBTQ history and rights. Also included are practical suggestions on dealing with homophobia; dating; creating a more accepting school environment; and reconciling your sexual/gender identity with cultural and religious beliefs.
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