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Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966. Carmichael’s life changed that day, and so did America’s struggle for civil rights. "Black Power" became the slogan of an era, provoking a national reckoning on race and democracy. In Stokely, preeminent civil rights scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael.

As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Betty's Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary, sitting outside the Cafe de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet....

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule.

Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer.

Una historia mundial de la costura, el bordado y las personas que han utilizado aguja e hilo para hacer oír su voz. En la Argentina de los años 1970, las madres marchaban con pañuelos en la cabeza bordados con los nombres de sus hijos "desaparecidos".

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status—it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care.

En 1977, el cadáver de María Isabel Gutiérrez Velasco aparece calcinado en una celda de la prisión de Basauri (Bizkaia). Sus compañeras no se creyeron la versión oficial y esos días declararon una huelga de prostitutas en Bilbao. De la mano de otros colectivos políticos, organizaron manifestaciones y encierros para exigir la amnistía de las y los presos sociales y la derogación de leyes franquistas que afectaban especialmente a la chusma.

Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli. Storia vera di Enaiatollah Akbari - bestseller amato e letto in tutto il mondo - termina nel 2008, quando Enaiat parla al telefono con la madre per la prima volta dopo il lungo e avventuroso viaggio che dall'Afghanistan l'ha condotto in Italia, a Torino. Ma cosa è successo alla sua famiglia prima di quella telefonata? In quali modi è rimasta coinvolta dalla "guerra al terrore" iniziata nel 2001? E com'è cambiata la loro vita e quella di Enaiat da quando si sono ritrovati fino a oggi, al 2020?

Angela Harrelson grew up poor, one of 13 brothers and sisters raised in a shack in the North Carolina woods. She was first in her family to go to college, first to be commissioned in the military, and first to have a career as a professional nurse. Along the way, she and her family were exposed to the harshest forms of racism - from her childhood riding the school bus with White children who made the Black kids stand, to racist commanding officers in the Air Force who told her they wanted her to fail.

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence.

"L'amicizia è una religione senza Dio né Giudizio finale. E non c'è neppure il diavolo. Una religione che non è estranea all'amore. Ma un amore dove la guerra e l'odio sono proscritti, dove il silenzio è possibile." L'amicizia, occasionale o fedele, è un sentimento che non tollera alcuna mancanza. È un atto di fede totale nell'altro, al punto che il suo tradimento è vissuto come una forma silenziosa di assassinio. Tahar Ben Jelloun esplora questo giardino segreto, le sue meraviglie e le sue ferite, e per farlo racconta di sé: dall'infanzia a oggi.

"Sono nato circondato dall'amore, ma poi mi sono trovato immerso nel buio. Finché non ho ritrovato la luce dentro di me: la danza." È così che Ahmad Joudeh racconta la sua vita: la storia drammatica ed esemplare di chi, fin da giovanissimo, si è trovato a lottare contro tutto e tutti pur di coronare il suo sogno. Dopo un'infanzia felice vissuta a Yarmouk, in Siria, la scoperta di una crescente passione per la danza è un richiamo a cui Ahmad sente di non potersi sottrarre. Ma non è semplice diventare un ballerino se vivi in una delle periferie più difficili di Damasco.

On a misty Monday - 21st June 1948 - the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1,027 passengers on board with 802 passengers from British Colonies in the West Indies. The infamous images of the passengers walking down the gangplank the next morning would be the moment the Windrush Generation was born. A Circle of Five reflects on the stories of the 300,000 or so making the same journey between 1948 and 1971 by showcasing the voices of five Jamaican women, Evelyn, Emma, Irene, Ivy and Melissa.

El secret del meu turbant explica la història real de Nadia Ghulam, una noia afganesa que amb només vuit anys va patir greus ferides a causa d'una bomba. En sortir de l'hospital dos anys més tard, el règim talibà s'havia instaurat a l'Afganistan i ella va prendre una decisió radical: es va vestir de noi i, durant deu anys, es va fer passar per home per poder portar un sou a casa, ja que el nou govern havia prohibit que les dones treballessin fora de la llar.

¿Ser mujer y no depilarte la barba? Qué ganas de complicarte la vida. ¿Salir del armario a los 40 años? Qué ganas de complicarte la vida. ¿Poner tu vida en riesgo por defender los derechos de otras personas? Qué ganas de complicarte la vida.

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds.

The Stone Thrower is a moving story about race and destiny written by a daughter looking for answers about her own Black history. Using insightful interviews, archival records, and her personal reflections, Richardson’s journey to learn about her father’s past leads her to her own important discoveries about herself and what it really means to be Black in Canada.

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family. But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age 40 she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence.

Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos.

In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in the mid-1950s and worked as a high school teacher before going into the nursing and retirement-home business. Though he was ultimately successful in his business ventures, Jolly faced both overt and covert discrimination, which led him into social activism.