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Jurist Lani Guanier's commentary on the state on American Democracy.

In the early morning of August 22, 1989, on the corner of Ninth and Center Streets in Oakland, Huey Newton faced Tyrone Robinson and two other drug dealers, asking them for crack. Robinson refused, took a 9-mm automatic from one of his companions and…

Memoir by Henry Louis Gates.

Compilation of quotes from Susan B. Anthony.

The views of leading African American jurists from around the country on the way our judicial system works. Included is an interview with Abigail R. Rogers, South Carolina's first female African American judge.

A history of violence in America as experienced by one family, from slavery in Edgefield, S.C., to prison in the urban North.

For four years, reporter Leon Dash followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her eight children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to capture the stark reality of life in the growing black underclass. As a black journalist troubled by the…

Armstrong Williams work on using personal development and responsibility to help solve crime and other urban problems.

Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong…

A biography by Roy Reed about former Governor of Alabama, Orval Faubus.

An account of the Civil Rights era.