This report is a literature review and critical analysis of factors contributing to ongoing underachievement of boys and young men of color…
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“Recorded over six years, Raising Bertie delivers an authentic and tender portrait of the lives of three young boys as they face a…
“Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics…
“A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New…
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“Ocean Vuong’s first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial ‘big’--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory,…
“Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this…
“Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. Beginning with a sweetly funny,…
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“Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would…
“Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia will be…
“In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections…