Civil Liberties

In 1951, Carlotta Walls Lanier was one of the nine African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School, and the first to earn a diploma. Here she provides a firsthand account of her experiences - including the bombing that rocked her home, the constant threats she and her classmates faced, and the pressure and bullying her parents endured.

Acclaimed journalist Daniel J. Sharfstein cuts through centuries of myth to deliver this groundbreaking work. Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, three American families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved—how the definitions of black and white changed over time.

Life-long liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with alternative points of view. Powers asks, "Whatever happened to free speech in America?"

Bill Bradley believes that America is at a crossroads, a "teachable moment" in which we are compelled to reevaluate our political system and leadership. With clarity and urgency, Bradley outlines the story we are being told now about who we are and what is possible for our nation. He then offers a new story, including what changes need to be made, and suggests that the party that chooses to embrace this new story will be in power for a generation.

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage of this disturbing form of firearm violence?

It was the 1960s - a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the “Help Wanted” ads were segregated by gender and the “Mad Men” office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil rights and the “Swinging Sixties.” Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller all started there as well. It was a top-notch job - for a girl - at an exciting place. But it was a dead end.

In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and the persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. Yet fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power - over the right to vote, the central pillar of our democracy. A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since 1965, Give Us the Ballot tells the story of what happened after the act was passed.

Hay muchas regiones de este mundo en las que las niñas no son deseadas y se les mata, en su mayoría antes o después de su nacimiento, esto es lo que se conoce como infanticidio. Matar a los bebés antes o después de su nacimiento es un crimen contra la humanidad y es ilegal en todo el mundo. Se trata de una historia real en la que se detalla cómo una niña fue destrozada por sus padres con sólo 3 días de vida y abandonada a su suerte.

El libro examina cómo estas fuerzas se han intensificado, particularmente bajo la administración de Trump, acelerando la división del país y su inestabilidad. Analiza de manera crítica cómo la discriminación racial sistémica, las políticas antiinmigrantes y la avaricia corporativa han afectado desproporcionadamente a las comunidades minoritarias, exacerbando la pobreza generacional y creando una crisis de salud mental generalizada.

Stellt euch vor, es gibt einen Rundfunkbeitrag und keiner zahlt ihn. Dem Erfolgsautor Heiko Schrang wurde mit Gefängnis gedroht, da er sich aus Gewissensgründen weigerte, den Rundfunkbeitrag zu entrichten. Die Geschichte sorgte für große mediale Aufmerksamkeit, was zur Folge hatte, dass unzählige Menschen sich ermutigt sahen, seinem Beispiel zu folgen.

From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law.

Somewhat a controversial topic nowadays the issue of gun control has become increasingly prevalent as more and more incidences of children using guns have come to the fore. As such the book Say No To Guns: Why Gun Control Will Solve Our Problems is well timed as it addresses some of the main issues. It delves right into the current situation in the United States and also compares it to the United Kingdom.

Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality. Using the French Revolution and its ideals as an example, he demonstrates his belief that any government must put the inherent rights of its citizens above all else, especially politics.

The Judges Oath(TM) is part memoir, offering practical advice for everyday people navigating the complexities—and often, the trickery—of our legal system. Written in a first-person narrative, it blends personal experience with a call for meaningful court reform. I hold a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a law degree from Concord Law School (part of Purdue University).

Social justice matters because we—each of us—matter. Unless we learn to co-exist as equals, we will never live optimally. To denigrate any one of us is to demean all of us. Absent the wholesale embrace of social justice, we risk succumbing to human tendencies to stereotype, "otherize," and scapegoat. Those tendencies, left unchecked, lead to horrific ends. When we see ourselves in others, we understand that our shared humanity eclipses all else. Through our disagreements, we must never doubt the dignity and worth of the other.

Learn about the bomb blast that rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, killing four young girls.

This is the original text as written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. This information was leaked by a currently unknown source, prematurely, into the the public eye, thus creating an emotional firestorm by those who haven't any understanding of the actual implications. This is my attempt to remedy the lack of understanding.

This audiobook reviews the impact of Justice John Paul Stevens on America's Supreme Court, as Stevens currently holds the third longest tenure in court history. Cases reviewed include Chevron and the Clean Air Act, Wallace and Prayer in Public Schools, Apprendi and Due Process, Bush vs. Gore and the 2000 Election and Hamdan and Habeas Corpus.

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