A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley recounts the final days of King's life, revealing the minister's trials and tribulations -- denunciations by the press, rejection from the president, dismissal by the country's black middle class and militants, assaults on his character, ideology, and political tactics, to name a few -- all of which he had to rise above in order to lead and address the racism, poverty, and militarism that threatened to destroy our democracy.
Smiley's Death of a King paints a portrait of a leader and visionary in a narrative different from all that have come before. Here is an exceptional glimpse into King's life -- one that adds both nuance and gravitas to his legacy as an American hero.
Woodson's classic work of criticism explores how the education received by blacks has failed to give them an appreciation of themselves as a race and their contributions to history. Woodson puts forward a program that calls for the educated to learn about their past and serve the black community.
Of the books authored by Martin R. Delany , The Origin of Races and Color is perhaps the most obscure. Out-of-print until now, it has been available to the public only through select libraries. At the time of its publication in , this valuable resource presented a bold challenge to racist views of African inferiority.
Delany wrote in opposition to a developing oppressive intellectualism that used Darwin's thesis, "the survival of the fittest," to support its demented theories of Black inferiority. Skillfully blending biblical history, archaeology and anthropology, Delany offered evidence to the "serious inquirer" suggesting the first humans were African, and that these Africans were ".
He believed knowledge of one's past was essential, and that it could provide Black people with the regenerative force necessary to inspire their self-improvement. Were he alive today, Delany would certainly feel at home with the present generation of Africancentrists, especially since he developed and articulated so many of their arguments more than a century ago.
An important analysis of the conflicts many African Americans endure as they struggle to balance two competing world views-African and European American.
In this Second Edition of this radical social history of America from Columbus to the present, Howard Zinn includes substantial coverage of the Carter, Reagan and Bush years and an Afterword on the Clinton presidency. Its commitment and vigorous style mean it will be compelling reading for under-graduate and post-graduate students and scholars in American social history and American studies, as well as the general reader. It began with an unsigned email: "I am a senior member of the intelligence community".
What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man, Edward Snowden. The consequences have shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, from Obama to Cameron, to the presidents of Brazil, France, and Indonesia, and the chancellor of Germany. Edward Snowden, a young computer genius working for America's National Security Agency, blew the whistle on the way this frighteningly powerful organisation uses new technology to spy on the entire planet.
The spies call it "mastering the internet". Others call it the death of individual privacy. This is the inside story of Snowden's deeds and the journalists who faced down pressure from the US and UK governments to break a remarkable scoop. Snowden's story reads like a globe-trotting thriller, from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Hawaii, carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of secret-spilling in Hong Kong and his battle for asylum.
Now stuck in Moscow, a uniquely hunted man, he faces US espionage charges and an uncertain future in exile. What drove Snowden to sacrifice himself? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding asks the question which should trouble every citizen of the internet age. This is a version of Gevrey's classical treatise on the heat equations.
After the first six chapters of standard classical material, each chapter is written as a self-contained unit except for an occasional reference to elementary definitions, theorems and lemmas in previous chapters. A masterpiece of words, Working is now adapted into comic-book form by Harvey Pekar, the blue-collar antihero of his American Book Award—winning comics series American Splendor.
Readers will find a visual palette of influences from Mexican, African American, superhero, and feminist art, each piece an electric melding of artist and subject. This is a book that will both delight Terkel fans and introduce his work to a whole new audience—a fitting tribute to an American legend.
Offers guidance to help African American males achieve their potential and fully realize their manhood, examining and comparing the actions of men and boys to provide a measuring stick to gauge personal development.
Fourteen young immigrants and individuals from minority cultural backgrounds describe what it is like growing up in America. This explosive and controversial examination of business, history, and ethnicity shows how "global tribes" have shaped the world's economy in the past--and how they will dominate its future. Find out if you experience slavery flashbacks that influence your behavior and control your thinking and learn how to recover from the post traumatic stress of slavery.
Timely, transformational, and content-rich, Conscious Health presents a personal health plan in the form of five keys we must use to ensure optimum health and lifelong vitality. A natural health library in one book, it can be read from cover to cover or used as a family reference manual. We are shown what we must do to give the body what it needs to keep us healthy.
With the awareness that Conscious Health brings, we can move from hoping for health to conscious creation of it. Young Browder thought if his grandfather could find fame and distinction there, so could he. Lucky for Browder, he graduated in , the same year the Berlin Wall came down, leading to the end of the Cold War An Interpol notice is an international alert circulated by Interpol to communicate information about crimes, criminals, and threats by police in a member state or an authorised international entity to their counterparts around the world.
The information disseminated via notices concerns individuals wanted for serious crimes, missing persons, unidentified bodies, possible threats, prison escapes, and criminals' modus operandi. There are eight types of notices, seven of which are colour-coded by their function: red, blue, green, yellow, black, orange, and purple.
The best-known notice is the red notice which is the 'closest instrument to an international arrest warrant in use today'. Notices published by Interpol are made either on the organisation's own initiative or are based on requests from national central bureaus NCBs of member states or authorised international entities such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
All notices are published on Interpol's secure website. Extracts of notices may also be published on Interpol's public website if the requesting entity agrees. Interpol may only publish a notice that adheres to all the proper legal conditions.
For example, a notice will not be published if it violates Interpol's constitution, which forbids the organisation from undertaking activities of a political, military, religious, or racial character. Interpol may refuse to publish a notice that it considers inadvisable or a potential risk. Notices may be issued in any of the four official languages of Interpol: English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
Similar to the notice is another request for cooperation or alert mechanism known as a 'diffusion'. This is less formal than a notice, but also is used to request the arrest or location of an individual or additional information in relation to a police investigation. A diffusion is circulated directly by a member state or international entity to the countries of their choice, or to the entire Interpol membership and is simultaneously recorded in Interpol's databases.
In , the seventh colour was added, Orange. In , the Interpol-United Nations Security Council special notice was created at the request of the UN Security Council through Resolution to provide better tools to help the Security Council carry out its mandate regarding the freezing of assets, travel bans, and arms embargoes aimed at individuals and entities associated with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and was adopted by Interpol at its 74th General Assembly in Berlin in September Interpol refused to do so on the basis that it deemed the request was 'predominantly political in nature and therefore contrary to INTERPOL's rules and regulations'.
Unable to secure his extradition, Browder was subsequently tried and convicted by a Moscow court for tax evasion in absentia.
Fair Trial chief executive Jago Russell stated, 'Interpol has been allowing itself to be used by oppressive regimes across the world to export the persecution of human rights defenders, journalists and political opponents'. In June , Iran issued an arrest warrant for U. President Donald Trump and 35 other U. It was shown in that Interpol red notices were sometimes inaccurate and could be politically motivated.
NGOs such as Fair Trials International have pointed to its limited internal controls to tackle political abuses. Many of its members have poor human rights records and corrupt, undemocratic governments and have been accused of abusing the red notice networks for political purposes. Some red notices are controversial and have been used to persecute opponents of regimes, [19] for example the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, whose red notice was removed because it was shown to be a political request.
Interpol issued a new refugee policy in , stipulating that a red notice should not be issued against a refugee when it has been requested by the country from which the refugee initially fled.
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