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"Argues that we live in a country founded on a "value gap"--with white lives valued more than others--that still distorts our politics today"--Provided by publisher.

Reveals the hard economic realities of the cocoa trade, from the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans.

Explores the history of successful Black communities in the United States, highlighting their entrepreneurs, politicians, inventors, scholars, bankers, doctors, and business owners. Includes photographs, a glossary, sidebars, an activity, and further resources.

An updated version of the author's book 'Marching Toward Madness,' which includes a consideration of the college athlete and whether those athletes should be paid, discussing the history of the student athlete; the ideals that those role models have inspired; and comprehensive reforms to end cheating and corruption in college sports while putting academics first.

"In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American defectors from the Republican Party. At the time, most African Americans lived in poverty in the South, denied citizenship rights and terrorized by white violence. But Roosevelt's victory created the opportunity for a group of African American intellectuals and activists to join his administration as racial affairs experts. Known as the Black Cabinet, they organized themselves into an unofficial council. They innovated antidiscrimination policy, documented the New Deal's inequalities, led programs that lifted people out of poverty and paved the way for greater federal accountability to African Americans and a greater black presence in government. But the Black Cabinet never won official recognition from Roosevelt, and with his death, it disappeared from history"--Provided by publisher.

"Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone? [The author] examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women--the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement"--Provided by publisher.

Originally published in 1884, this updated edition presents an insightful and eye-opening exploration of post-Reconstruction America--one with issues still plaguing the US today--that analyzes the relationship between capitalism and racism in the US.

"A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, 'How Can We Win'"--Provided by publisher.

"In this book, Jim Freeman suggests that the biggest reason America cannot get beyond its racial divide is as simple as it disturbing: Racism is enormously profitable. Rich Thanks to Racism exposes a group of Corporate America and Wall Street billionaires as a driving force behind the public policies that perpetuate racial inequities and cause severe harm to communities of color across the country"--.

Eleven-year-old Gina Sparks, aspiring journalist, and her fellow GEEKs, Edgar, Elena, and Kevin, live in Elmwood, New Hampshire, a small town in serious danger of vanishing completely--unless the four friends can find the Van Houten fortune, which was supposedly promised to the town by Maxine Van Houten, a famous toymaker who loved complicated puzzles.