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Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about how the United States criminal justice system, educational system, and urban planning have hurt Black boys and men. What are the solutions going forward to turn the tide against this specific demographic group? How can the cycle of poverty be broken? What are reparations, and are they the solution to the inequities of generational wealth not afforded to many Black families due to the history...
2) Hard Times
Author
Language
English
Description
“Facts alone are wanted in life.” The children at Mr. Gradgrind’s school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold, hard reality. The effects of Gradgrind’s teaching on his own children, Tom and Louisa, are particularly profound and leave them ill-equipped to deal with the unpredictable desires of the human heart. Luckily for them, they have a friend in Sissy Jupe, the child of a circus
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"We're in a culture war, and Peachy Keenan is not taking prisoners. This raucous new book is her rallying cry for normal people stuck in the foxholes and appalled by the status quo. Mothers and fathers, regular American families, men and women, can win this battle together. But a lot of ground has been lost. For decades, we stood around and watched as feminists and progressives steamrolled through our institutions-- those formerly robust, now comically...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Language
English
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
7) Bliss
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex, and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of...
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools. Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago's North Shore,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in this...
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Alex and his friends from Artimé are stranded on a newly-discovered island, and they are not alone, while in Quill, his twin Aaron's power base grows as he joins with an unlikely ally in a risky plan to finally conquer Artimé.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as many problems--as many crises--as the current generation of young people. From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence, from rampant transphobia to the widening wealth gap, from the lack of health care to the lack of housing, the challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution,...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Imagine living in a town without rules. Life would be very chaotic! Readers will learn the difference between rules and laws, why they're important for towns to have, and what could happen if they didn't exist. Age-appropriate text makes it easy for readers to understand early elementary civics concepts from the C3 Framework for Social Studies. From this book, students will gain a better understanding of how rules contribute to the common good, even...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury, Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Being a good citizen means standing up for what's right-and here's just the way to start. From the author of The Gutsy Girl comes a book for those with a fierce sense of justice, a good sense of humor, and a big heart. This guide features change-maker tips, tons of DIY activities, and stories about the kids who have paved the way before, from famous activists like Malala Yousafzai and Claudette Colvin to the everyday young people whose habit changes...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present."--from Amazon.com.
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