"Finally we have a book that seriously examines the religious views of one of the most important figures in modern American history as well as the black freedom struggle." -- Clarence Taylor, author ofBlack Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the Twenty-first Century A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His proteg? Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, he was probably the greatest civil rights leader of the twentieth century until Martin Luther King." Scholarship has traditionally portrayed Randolph as an atheist and anti-religious, his connections to African American religion either ignored or misrepresented. Taylor places Randolph within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion. She demonstrates that Randolph's religiosity covered a wide spectrum of liberal Protestant beliefs, from a religious humanism on the left, to orthodox theological positions on the right, never straying far from his African Methodist roots.

Emma and Jack are playing in the sandbox while their mother is pushing their baby brother in a nearby swing. They hear a noise. Looking over the bushes, they see a little girl crying. They ask if there is anything they can do to help. She tells them that her name is Princess Florinda Clara Amelia Rafaela Louisa Josefina and that she is waiting for her friends. Lauren, as Princess Florinda Clara Amelia Rafaela Louisa Josefina likes to be called, tells Emma and Jack all about her life in her castle. Emma and Jack can't decide which is more astonishing: that Lauren paints on the walls, that she throws her dishes on the floor or that she came to the park alone. Emma and Jack meet a Princess tells the story of how you can find a friend almost anywhere and how someone who seems very different from you can turn out to be just like you after all.