![]() ![]() ![]() As a consequence she was socially handicapped “among Negroes who found me. The teenage Margo was hopeless when it came to acting cool, too earnest to strike aloof poses, too well spoken to pull off street slang. Cultivated and ambitious, she struggled to reconcile her grounding in respectable bourgeois values with an emerging political consciousness in an era of intense racial strife. Jefferson, a Pulitzer-winning theatre critic for the New York Times before becoming a professor of writing, relates her youthful self-doubt with candour and sincerity. But most people would like to consider us Just More Negroes." A personal memoir with profound political resonance, Negroland is an illuminating exploration of the racial politics of culture and class. "To Caucasians we were oddities, underdogs and interlopers." As her mother told her, "We're considered upper-class Negroes and upper-middle-class Americans. "Inside the race, we were self-designated aristocrats," Jefferson writes. These successful strivers and members of the liberal professions were a socioeconomic anomaly. ![]() ‘Negroland” is Margo Jefferson’s coinage to denote the milieu of affluent black Chicagoans in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments The american kingpin![]() ![]() The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone-not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers-could buy and sell contraband detection-free. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything-drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons-free of the government’s watchful eye. ![]() The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom-and almost got away with it ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The foundation of the book is the focus Yoon has on character development. The books are romance novels about people that might have it harder than a lot of other people, explaining how to deal with it. She writes about life and love, as “simply” as she can. In both her books, the main character is of mixed race, with curly dark hair. Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author and decided to follow a classic piece of creative advice: “write about what you know”. ![]() The Sun Is Also a Starwas as big of a hit as Yoon’s first book and was published by Delacorte Press in November 2016. Written by Dan Ahmed and other people who wish to remain anonymousĪfter Jamaican-American author Nicola Yoon published her first novel and New York Times Bestselling book, Everything, Everything, in September 2015, she quickly began writing her next novel. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() I began reading the book without knowing a lot of the controversy around Nicole. When a friend recommended the book, How To Do The Work, knowing how I feel about personal development and growth, I initially did not make the connection that it was the same person who I followed on Instagram. I saw her spreading helpful information that often resonated with me. Like many others, I found The Holistic Psychologist on Instagram. ![]() She is a corporate leader, author, entrepreneur, and speaker. Nicole Lepera is a writer, podcaster, and social media influencer known as on Instagram with a rather large following. This is my review and thoughts on the book How To Do The Work. I share my thoughts on her take on recognizing your patterns, healing from your past, and creating yourself. ![]() After reading How To Do The Work by Nicole LePera I have gathered my thoughts on the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was very excited to find BEHOLDING BEE by Kimberly Newton Fusco in my mailbox last week. Isolation, the healing power of community, and the strength of the human This tender novel beautifully captures the pain of That she, too, matters to the world-if only she will let herself be a ![]() Strangely, only Bee seems able to see them.Īre, they matter. Her go to school, though they won't enter the building themselves. They feed her, though there is nothing in their house to eat. They clothe her, though their clothes are strangely out of date. ![]() She runs off to a house with gingerbread trim that reminds her ofįrosting. When Pauline is sent to workĪs unwanted as she, and Bee realizes that she must find a home for themīoth. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on herįace-though her beloved Pauline, the only person who has ever cared for Summary: Bee is an orphan who lives with a carnival and sleeps in the back of a ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments #Rev by Cambria Hebert![]() ![]() Then her perfect job becomes her perfect nightmare. It also doesn’t hurt that she’s safe within the heavily secured and secret studio sets, away from the public eye. ![]() ![]() Working as a makeup and special effects artist for Hollywood combines her two life must-haves: her passion for makeup and hiding in plain sight. Her ability to fool the eye, to create truth where there was previously none makes her the best in the business. For those reasons, Zoey has become an expert at creating the perfect illusion. But it is something she can’t forget, something she’s reminded of every time she looks in the mirror. The only thing drawn to her more than danger is him…ĭanger isn’t Zoey’s middle name. Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense (Stand-alone) Cover Design: Cassy Roop of Pink Ink Designs Moth to a Flame by Cambria Hebert Publication date: Spring 2017 ![]() ![]() I am Jazz! by Jessica Herthel Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world. What was stonewall? by Nico Medina Pride : celebrating diversity & community by Robin Stevenson Looks at the Pride events of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities from around the world, exploring the history of Pride celebrations and the multifaceted meanings and purposes of the events. ![]() History in the Making - LGBTQ+ Community (Kids) Read one of these nonfiction books to learn more about the LGBTQ+ community. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Dorothy Day by Robert Coles![]() ![]() Physician and child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who had worked with these populations for many years, described with fierce clarity the medical and psychological effects of hunger. Al Clayton’s sensitive camerawork enabled the subcommittee members to see the agonizing results of insufficient food and improper diet, rendered graphically in stunted, weakened and fractured bones, dry, shrunken, and ulcerated skin, wasting muscles, and bloated legs and abdomens. The most powerful testimonies came from the authors of this profoundly disturbing and important book. At those hearings, witnesses documented examples of deprivation afflicting hundreds of thousands of American families. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty hearings on hunger in America. ![]() The work was created to complement a July 1967 U.S. ![]() Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Piggie pie book![]() ![]() When hungry Gritch arrives at the farm, she can't find a single pig. But Palatini deftly turns the tables on Gritch, whose own sense of importance (and the skywritten warning "Surrender Piggies!" ) gives her victims time to implement a plan to save their bacon. She acts her part, too, swaggering, greedy, and just plain impatient, as she brooms off to Old MacDonald's Farm in search of eight plump porkers for her favorite pie. ![]() "This is definitely not your run-of-the-mill Halloween picture book, even though Gritch the Witch certainly looks her part (though a bit more trendy), with a pointy hat, a gap-toothed grin, vicious green fingernails, and two beauteous moles on her face. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Story thieves book order![]() ![]() It all comes back to Bethany's own secret origins. But who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They'll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. The new HBO drama White House Plumbers is based on true life events leading up to the infamous Watergate scandal in 1972. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark. ![]() Even the villains are terrified of the Dark's shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there's nothing left but the Dark. Bethany cant let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owens favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series. But they didn't make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world. ![]() Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves-which was called a "fast-paced, action-packed tale" by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. ![]() |