Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, this guide book profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom. Coverage includes information on such mainstay figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks, but also delves into how lesser known figures contributed to and shaped the history of civil rights. Learn how the Housewives' League of Detroit started a nationwide movement to support black businesses, helping many to survive the depression; or discover what effect sports journalist Samuel Harold Lacy had on Jackie Robinson's historic entrance into the major leagues. This comprehensive resource chronicles the breadth and passion of an entire people's quest for freedom.

Tammy Robbins is a beautiful and successful marketing executive at one of the top firms in Atlanta, GA. She just loves all high end name brands items. From Gucci, Prada, Hermes, to her favorite pair of red bottoms, she has them all and more. The problem with this is that she really can not afford them. Yes, she makes a six figure income but she spends more than she makes. From her luxury car to her high-rise condo in Buckhead, her money is stretched each month. Her problem is that she believes image is everything and she will do what it takes to keep it up. Even if it means spending less time with her family and putting her love life on hold. Will her consumption of high end goods cost her everything in the end? Thirty-six year old Carlton Harris is a successful entrepreneur that turned his small construction company into a multi-million dollar business. He is looking for a woman to share his life and wealth with, but has to be careful that she will love him more than his money. His last relationship was a disaster and changed him as a man. Therefore he hides his wealth when he meets any new woman. When he meets Tammy will he change his ways to gain her love and trust? Kimberly is married to Russell Nicks who plays for the local basketball team. From the outside looking in she is living the life most women envy and dream about. But over the years she has grown restless in her marriage. She is now hiding a secret that could destroy it all. Will her marriage be able to survive if or when it comes out?

Are you and your mate ready for that walk down the aisle? I know you have that dream wedding mapped out in your head, but is your current mate the right one? You will be able to answer those questions and more after reading this book. It is a quick guide on what values a relationship should have and what should be discussed before you take those vows.

In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for acampaignto guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right--a movement that would "transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield results for our children." The response was passionate, and the meeting launched a movement.
This book--emerging directly from that effort--reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is. Essays include
- Robert Moses's historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education
- Ernesto Cortes's view from decades of work organizing Latino communities in Texas
- Charles Payne's interview with students from the Baltimore Algebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on their district
- Legal scholar Imani Perry's nuanced analysis of the prospects of making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by the Constitution
- Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, and by teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples of what quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guide practice in the meantime

Today the Pr sident H nault (1685-1770) is perhaps best remembered for his Abr g chronologique de l'histoire de France. In addition, this acad micien wrote several plays including Fran ois II, roi de France, a five-act tragedy depicting 'la jalousie des princes de sang contre messieurs de Guise'. First published in 1747, the play was considered by H nault and his contemporaries to be the first of a new kind of theatre, one written specifically to be read rather than to be performed. It is therefore arguably the founding text of the tradition of armchair theatre that encompasses Diderot, R tif de la Bretonne, Musset and Hugo. It is a work that mediates between the page and the stage at a time of unprecedented investment by actors, architects and playwrights alike in the material theatre apparatus. Despite Fran ois II's historical, literary and cultural significance, this important text has not been published for over two centuries.The book takes as its base text the 1768 edition. This second edition features H nault's valuable preface in which he justifies his decision to write a history in dramatic form by appealing to the precedent set by Shakespeare and by discussing the reader's imaginative reconstruction of the dramatic apparatus. It also includes the dozen pages of the pr sident's own explanatory notes.The introduction places the tragedy within the context of theatrical developments in mid eighteenth-century France, and considers H nault's other dramatic works, notably Le R veil d'Epinimede and Le Temple des chim res, in order to clarify his understanding of dramatic illusion and the pleasures of the imagination.This critical edition of H nault's Fran ois II asks if we might re(de)fine our understanding of the theatrical; can a work not intended for the stage still function as drama and, if so, why should the founding text of 'le spectacle dans un fauteuil' appear at the very moment when every effort is being made to liberate the stage as a discrete space of illusion and fantasy?