Keyonni James
1) Brooklyn
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Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't?
Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became.
Brooklyn
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"A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool, arguing that racism affects our biology"-- Provided by publisher.
Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she'd grown used to the idea that she had an extremely rare and untreatable skin...
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Maintain focus on the first, critical 5% of any project and multiply your results
In The 5% Rule of Leadership: Using Lean Decision-Making to Drive Trust, Ownership, and Team Productivity, veteran technology leader and executive Anil Singhal delivers a transformative approach to project management and company leadership. He explains how to focus your efforts on the first, critical stages of any project or initiative to multiply your results and...
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In this "love letter to the Black Church," Dr. Lisa Allen examines the history of worship in the Black Church in America (and its legacy of equating liturgy with justice), the enduring effects of white supremacy on its liturgical heritages, and finally proffers a new liturgical paradigm, using a womanist hermeneutic, for students, liturgists, liturgical musicians, and lay people.
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The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of black Americans. Since the song's creation, it has been adopted by the NAACP and performed...
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Are you aged 45+ and tired of feeling stressed, anxious, or low-energy?
It could be menopause. But first, read this...
A 2022 study from SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) showed that Black Women reach menopause almost a year earlier than white women, and often have worse symptoms. As well as the hot flashes, trouble sleeping & hair thinning - Black Women were found to be less likely to receive adequate support & treatments.
Perhaps...
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American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the civil rights movement, in reality...
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Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox-the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live-what do you do? If you're Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.
In Traveling without Moving, Coleman shares intimate essays from her life: her childhood in Chicago-growing up in poverty with four siblings and a single mother-and the empowering decision to leave her first marriage. She writes about being the only Black student in...
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A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars in sales and profits. The problem is that most of the wealth created winds up enriching...
10) Perish: A Novel
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“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”
—The New York Times Book...
—The New York Times Book...
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Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future.
As psychedelics and psychedelic - assisted therapies explode into the popular consciousness, what does it mean to cultivate and embody a psychedelic renaissance that learns from the past and prepares for the future?
From cultural appropriation and sustainability to diversity, inclusion and venture capitalism, Psychedelic Justice: Toward...
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For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be. This engaging...