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Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the "knuckleheads" of the African-American community. Even more surprising than his comments, however, was...
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In this powerful examination of "the greatest propaganda campaign of all time"--The masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex--Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves.
85) Blood is thicker
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Bluford series volume 8
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Hakeem has a hard time adjusting when, due to his father's sickness, Hakeem and his family must move in with his uncle in distant Detroit, especially when he has to share his room with his moody cousin Savon.
86) Brothers in arms
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Bluford series volume 9
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Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too. On one side are his desperate mother, a friendly teach at Bluford High School, and a pretty girl named Vicky. On the other are his old neighborhood and his hunger for revenge. Torn between the two, Martin stands at a crossroad, with his life hanging in the balance. Which way will he go?
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Bluford series volume 10
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When a frightening ordeal turns her life upside down, Darcy reaches out to her friends for help, but discovers that one of them has an even bigger secret.
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Bluford series volume 3
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High-school student Roylin Bailey tries to impress the new girl in history class, but when when one of his friends disappears, he becomes caught in a web of lies and threats.
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"Should Sister Bear ignore the new girl at school just because her friends do? [This book]shows children how choosing to be kind may not always be the easy choice. But it is always the right one. Young readers will appreciate the lessons Sister Bear learns in [this book] the newest Berenstain Bears® Living Lights™ Level One I Can Read."--Amazon.com.
98) The forgotten: how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump and changed America
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"Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean...
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