How well do we ever know the people we love? Chessman examines this question in three generations of women in a contemporary Connecticut family. As dementia overtakes Hannah Pearl, she slips backward in memory to her escape from France in 1940; boarding the ferry with her heavy bags; the whistle of bombs raining down on London; the family she left behind. Her daughter Miranda, distraught by Han…
My name is Leon Walter Tillage. I was born on January 19, 1936... I remember that as a young boy Iused to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness..
Ten-year-old Justin just can't seem to do anything right-no matter how hard he tries. He gets home late when he doesn't mean to. He can't keep his room clean, wash dishes, or fix himself a meal.
When badguy Buzzsaw Bart shows up with a challenge in the town of Cowlick, everyone discovers that scale drawing can be the secret of success. Who will walk away the winner from the showdown at high noon and who will be cut down to size?
This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of color. He lived by the idea that black people should demand equlity by taking their lives and futures into their own hands. With guidance from the religious leader Elijah Muhammad, Mal
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