Lawrence C. Ross
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Language
English
Description
This comprehensive history of African American fraternities and sororities celebrates the spirit of Black Excellence in higher education that has produced American leaders in politics, sports, arts, and culture such as Kamala Harris, Colin Kaepernick, Michael Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, and Toni Morrison, and is sure to be a treasured resource for generations to come.
America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and...
America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and...
2) Skin game
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Stripping at L.A.'s Chi-Chi Club to pay for her college tuition at UCLA, drop-dead gorgeous Keisha Montez, who is blessed with a killer body, catches the eye of the head honcho at "PIMP" magazine, who will do anything to get her to star in his adult films.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"'College' is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial politics on campus. Does this association disturb our idealized visions of what happens behind the ivied walls of higher learning? It should - because campus...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing true story of Robbie Tolan, a young black man who was shot in the chest by a white police officer . . . in his own driveway.
NO JUSTICE is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found himself being rushed to the hospital. A white police officer had shot him in the chest after mistakenly accusing him of stealing his own car...while in his own driveway.
In a journey that took nearly a decade, Tolan...
8) Hazing
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hazing, from award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt, offers a powerful, deeply personal look inside the culture of hazing in fraternities and sororities, sports teams, marching bands, the military, and beyond. Hurt, who belongs to a fraternity himself, talks to members of Black and historically white Greek-letter organizations and other groups that practice hazing, and gives voice to survivors of severe initiation rituals and the families of young people...