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This is a rare moment when the females and not the males are named in the lineage.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Is there any tribe more
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
towns. They remained small, and antisemitism was always a threatening undertow. But it was a distinct status. In the context of slavery, Jewish people were understood to be White, with higher rates of
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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Jean Shinoda Bolen is one of the most accessible writers on Hermes. She is Japanese-American, a professor of psychiatry at the university of California, San Francisco, and is familiar with parapsychology. In the 1970s she wrote for Psychic magazine, which her husband edited and published. Her interest in psychic matters is further seen in her book
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
Redlining may no longer be official U.S. policy, but poor and predominately Black neighborhoods, and even whole towns, continue to function as “mortgage deserts.” If millions of poor renters accept exploitative housing conditions, it’s not because they can’t afford better alternatives; it’s because they often aren’t offered any.[16]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen
... See moreDiana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
At the very moment she uttered those words, Black people were facing rampant acts of white supremacist violence and terror. From the period of 1882 to 1968, an estimated 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States, with Black people accounting for more than 70 percent of the victims.93
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
cold-blooded need for control.