If We Are Brave: Essays from Black Americana

If We Are Brave: Essays from Black AmericanaThe popular Washington Post contributing opinion columnist challenges readers to have uncomfortable conversations about race, drawing on the first person perspectives of the author and Americans from diverse viewpoints and walks of life. The United States claims to be a nation founded on an idea, writes Theodore R. Johnson, but Americanseven though we nod our heads to that assertiondo not agree on what that idea is, what it should do, or who it is

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Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother

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Set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2013

Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails that echo through the corridors

Wallace "Wallo267" Peeples--a man who spent twenty years in and out of the prison system before restarting his life and catapulting himself to unforeseen levels of social impact

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The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions

Edgar Hoover's famous covert campaigns against civil rights leaders