African-American History | History
Mar.07.2009
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism...
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Nov.06.2008
The incredible true story of the Cabeza de Vaca's 1528 expedition to North America. Four hundred landed near Tampa, Florida in 1528 and promptly disappeared into the swamps. All were assumed to be dead, but eight years later three Spaniards and an African, the only survivors, appeared on the...
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Sep.19.2008
This book deals with the present effects of bondage that comes through systems that benefit by the categorization and enslavement of people, especially black people. Freedom cannot be legislated nor can it be obtained through systems of men. Freedom is something deeply rooted in the Spirit....
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Sep.18.2008
"Chosen - Not Cursed!", is a treatise on Biblical Black History. It dismisses the myth that blacks are a cursed race. "Chosen - Not Cursed!" was one of the first books written from a perspective of Scriptural Black History that received national and international attention.
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Sep.06.2008
Adam’s Belle is a roller coaster ride through the life of the late Isabel Washington Powell. This first-person narrative charges through Isabel’s life from her early childhood days as a baby “drama queen” in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia to her stage debut kicking up her heels at Harlem’s...
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Sep.03.2008
My Soul is A Witness explores the rich legacy of African American sacred music, focusing on the theological import of this music born of oppression. Robert Darden, Associate Professor of Journalism at Baylor University, writes: The spirituals are an extraordinarily rich lyric tradition, the result...
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Jun.12.2008
THE STORY OF LOVE While China Galland was visiting family in rural East Texas, she learned of Love Cemetery-a nearly 175-year-old African American burial ground-from the cemetery guardian, Mrs. Nuthel Britton. For forty years, Love Cemetery was inaccessible, starting with a lockout at the height of...
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