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In this study of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era, the decision to defend oneself and family is reframed in terms of a daily concern for many African Americans who faced the continual menace of white aggression. Simultaneous.
The healthcare industry can be lucrative and dangerous. When a powerful and charismatic magnate employs unethical and harmful tactics to dominate the market, a young employee considers becoming a whistle blower to obtain justice. Opioids, murders, counterfeit drugs, assault, and kidnapping intimidate and threaten her resolve and her life. Will Detective Dahlia "Dizzy" Gillespie and her investigative team be able to thwart the Thief Executive Officer? Will a mysterious bodyguard protect the employee or will his interference merely increase the danger for her?
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Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Poitiers, France, 2-6 October 1995
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.