Category: Books

The New Jim Crow

Plessy v, Ferguson

The New Jim Crow

In 2012, Stanford University scholar Michelle Alexander gave us a book that is as important as it is well written. The thesis of The New Jim Crow is clear and describes a problem that will not go away on its own – the race-based explosion of the American prison population.  Read More

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Birth of Race-Based Slavery in the American Colonies

Slave Ship Diagram

Slave Ship Diagram

The Birth of Race-Based Slavery in the American colonies…by the 17th century, America’s slave economy had eliminated the obstacle of morality. During the second half of the 17th century, a terrible transformation, the enslavement of people solely on the basis of race, occurred in the lives of African Americans living in North America. Read More

About E. Franklin Frazier

E. Franklin Frazier

About E. Franklin Frazier

About E. Franklin Frazier…originally published on what-when-how…Franklin Frazier, one of the most prominent African American sociologists of the early twentieth century, studied at Howard University (BA 1916), Clark University (MA 1920), and the University of Chicago (PhD 1931). Read More

Truman Capote’s Unfinished Novel

Author Truman Capote

Author Truman Capote

Truman Capote’s unfinished novel Answered Prayers is an unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and in 1987 in the United States.The title is in reference to a quote by Saint Teresa of Ávila: “Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered”…Wikipedia Read More

Getty Ambau’s The Four Pillars for Your Health, Good Looks and Longevity

Four Pillars For Your Health

Four Pillars For Your HealthGetty Ambau’s The Four Pillars for Your Health, Good Looks and Longevity
“The idea of eating good food to nourish our body and keep it healthy is not novel. Nearly 2500 years ago Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, advised us to “make food our medicine, medicine our food.” Read More

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