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This audio is like an informal writing clinic, as you listen to these writers talk about their lives, experiences and, of course, their writing. While you are listening, Terry Gross draws out from these great writers the answers to your questions, just as the query begins to form in your own head.

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, yet with many interesting details. A glimpse is given of the trials and successes which combined to mold their character and afford such stirring examples for the youth of today. The stories are patriotic in every line, and inspire the listener to the best of thoughts and deeds. Written in the 1800s, the Young Listeners Collection features children's stories from yesterday's classics.

Captain Thomas Baldwin and the crew of Constantine have saved the Concord from the Assembly, and are tasked with bringing them to prison. With a stop at Earon, the human home planet, everyone gets a few days of well needed rest. When communication comes that the wormhole generator is ready, Constantine must return to the Statu system with a new fleet, alongside a brand-new flagship with a familiar AI. Constantine Baldwin was rumored to have ended the War 50 years ago, but its up to Thomas Baldwin to really finish the job.

In honor of the 100th birthday of writer and activist James Baldwin, The New York Public Library will present two exhibitions; James Baldwin: Mountain to Fire at the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures and JIMMY! God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth. The respective curators of both shows, Charles Cuykendall Carter, assistant curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley, and Barrye Brown, Schomburg Center Curator of Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books, join us to discuss the initiative.

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Taking up that challenge and drawing from Baldwin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't will spur today's progressives from conviction to action. It is not enough, authors Hollowell and McGhee urge us, to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. True and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin's radical challenge for moral commitment. Called to move from dreams of justice to living it out in communities, churches, and neighborhoods, we can show that we truly mean it.

When Emma Cartwright gets some very (very) bad health news, she handles it in just about the last way that anybody who knows her would expect. Namely, she heads out alone to a bar on Friday night, intent on having her first-ever one-night-stand. A single night of escape with a scorching guy, and then she’ll focus on her treatment and recovery. After all, what’s one night, really? Ever since coming back from Afghanistan two years ago, Dean Jessop’s life is all about ‘just one night’.

Stock investing is always an excellent opportunity to build wealth. However, many people don't even dare to try investing out, because they fear losing money. But, what if it was possible to take the stress out of investing? What if you could create a strategy that would only keep earning you money?

When expert dividend stock investor James Pattersenn, Jr., started his stock investment journey, he wasn’t quite sure where to start, either. By going into the investment world head-on, James has gleaned numerous valuable insights from both his good and bad experiences. One of the great lessons of his investment career is that dividend stock investing, by far, offers the commonsense approach to building wealth and achieving financial freedom.

100 anni fa nasceva James Baldwin, un immenso scrittore americano. Nero e omosessuale, ha raccontato la lotta per i diritti civili come pochissim_ altr_ negli USA e fa parte di un pantheon ideale cha va da Rosa Parks ad Angela Davis, da Martin Luther King a Malcom X. In occasione del centenario della nascita di quest’autore ancora troppo poco conosciuto in Italia e molto amato all’estero e da chi lavora nel settore editoriale, Nel nome di James è il podcast dove sette importanti intellettuali italian* lo raccontano da diverse prospettive.

Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of a crucial political issue and helps to fuel a social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander offers a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status, denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights movement.

The cowboy in black, known as Deadeye, is being compelled by an inner pull in his chest, as if a rope was tied around his ribcage. This pull cannot be ignored. The unseen force drags him into dangerous and horrific situations. He learns to stay back in the shadows, away from the horrors he is forced to witness. He is not allowed to assist nor intervene in any way. He is after all, only the recorder.

When Tim Ellison finds a cheap room to rent in his dream location, it seems nothing more than a wonderful stroke of luck. Despite the fact that the owner of the house, the mysterious Anna London, is unfriendly and withdrawn, he takes it. But when strange and terrifying things start happening in the house at night, Tim wonders if renting the room has been a terrible mistake - until his feelings for Anna start to change.

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, all born into the beginning of the 20th century and its deadly landscape of racial prejudice. Jim Crow. Exploitation. Unpoliced violence. Police violence.

The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Duke UP, 2018), Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works. Zaborowska shows how the themes of dwelling and black queer male sexuality in The Welcome Table, Just above My Head, and If Beale ...

Kylen Mills joins Cyrus Saatsaz every Monday and Friday and in today's show the crew continuing reacting to the aftermath of the leaked video showing Draymond Green punching Jordan Poole plus detailed analysis is provided of the Golden State Warriors - Los Angeles Lakers preseason game including impressive play from the Poole Party, James Wiseman, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and Jonathan Kuminga.Follow & Subscribe to the Locked On Warriors Podcast on these platforms…🎧 Apple https://apple.co/3wHwnYE🎧 Spotify https://spoti.fi/3cN3Skk🎧 Audacy https://bit.ly/35vmpNI🎧 Stitcher https://bit.ly/...

Is a 2,000-year-old story relevant to business, career, politics and media, plus our daily lives? In our increasingly fractured and disjointed communities, is God kicking back with a bucket of eternal popcorn; or is there an intricate plan with all details covered? We wake up each day to an onslaught of information. By many accounts, truth has never been more fluid. Pick a truth, create a truth, what the hell is truth? There’s no shortage of opinion in our daily lives, plus a whole other intelligence to consider. Maybe it’s real, maybe artificial. In this follow-up to God Porn, you’ll...

By keeping prayer constant in your life, you can gain the strength you need to conquer any challenge. Get the information you need to walk in victory over the enemy daily. The Praying Christian Man: Learn to Be a Strong Man of God, Pray, and Walk in Victory over the Enemy is a bundle of two of our best audiobooks in one.

In Value Investing Made Simple, veteran value stock investor James Pattersenn, Jr. provides you with proven, potentially life-changing investing strategies that you can use to start building wealth and pursuing financial freedom, whether you are just learning how to buy stocks, or you are an experienced stock investor.

This audio includes the actual recordings of speeches from six of the most famous British politicians: James Ramsay MacDonald, King George V, King Edward VIII, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, and King George VI.