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Winter 1944, Yugoslavia. American airmen parachuted from crippled bombers. Some landed in safety. Others were slaughtered by German fire. Extreme weather closed the skies; the Germans blocked the path to the sea. British agents eventually extracted sixty-six airmen. Eighteen remained-- and were sent over the mountains at the prodding of guns by the Partisan forces who were desperate to rid themselves of the Americans. Stanley, the son of one of the...

"Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to outsource political needs to a professional class of politicians...

Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic TV repair man accused of murdering his wife, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence. In October 1997, the town of Ringgold in northwest Georgia was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in Alvin Ridley's house--and even more shockingly, she...

"The issue of the future of Social Security, on which millions of Americans depend, produced great political theater at the State of the Union address. That highlighted a bigger problem of financing retirement as baby boomers seek to retire, often with limited resources. Many argue that the solution to the problem is for people to work longer. Teresa Ghilarducci, a noted expert on retirement, argues that the "working longer" idea is wrong, unnecessary,...

"When John C.H. Wu's spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic best seller and was compared to Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain, which had appeared four years earlier. It was also hailed as the new Confession of St. Augustine for its moving description of Wu's conversion in 1937 and early years as a Catholic. This new edition, including a foreword written by Wu's son John Wu, Jr., makes...

News and events in the Green Valley neighborhood in Arlington, Va. Green Valley was a primarily African American neighborhood.

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

"Zeb Wells takes Spider-Man to dark places! First, two of Spider-Man's villains are plotting the deadliest team-up he's ever had to face. But are they after Peter Parker? Or is he just in the way of something bigger? The answers await in Spidey's first hunt! But when the unexpected consequences of his actions are fully felt, will New York ever look at the web-slinger in the same way again? Then, just when things are getting too heavy, the amazing...

"Curse of the Jedi - a DARK DROIDS tie-in! Killer droids have taken over Darth Vader's flagship! Will the lessons of Jedi Masters Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan save the man who was once Anakin Skywalker from the corruption of the Scourge - or make him a tool for its galactic conquest? To survive a war on two fronts - against a horde of Scourged and the forces of the Empire itself - Vader must reclaim his control over the Force by exploring his deepest hatred....

"Collection of comics created by Latinx artists and writers that comes together to shed light on their various autobiographical experiences as situated within the language, culture, history, and sociopolitics that inform Latinx hemispheric identities and subjectivities"--