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Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
An Extraordinary Life
Josephine Jones, born in 1920, the daughter of a South Carolina sharecropper, became, in the sixties a Harlem activists as well as the first black woman in management at a Fortune 500 company.As a single parent, she worked on three jobs to send her daughter to private schools.The importance of education runs through Josephine's life like a golden thread. Josephine's life was directly affected by the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the gentrification of Harlem, and the AIDS epidemic.An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones is an American story, a Great Migration story, a New York story, a black family's story, a mother-daughter story, and the story of a woman's fight for creativity in the workplace.
Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Madeleine L'Engle
Best known for her young adult novel A Wrinkle in Time, and fiction that merges fantasy, science, and theology, Madeleine L'Engle received the National Humanities Medal twelve days before her eighty-sixth birthday. This engaging biography offers a glimpse into the life and work of one of America's favorite authors who inspires readers with characters who make a real effort to learn and grow, and are rewarded for the pain they've suffered. In it we learn her work methods, and that her goal in writing a book is to ask questions, hoping her book will help find the answers.
Chasing the Blues
Chasing the Blues explores the roots of the blues---the music birthed in the Mississippi Delta by African Americans who fashioned a new form of musical expression grounded in their shared experience of brutal oppression. They used the power of music to survive that oppression, creating a simple-in-structure, emotionally complex form that transformed and upended culture and became the bedrock of popular song. Tracing the music back to its geographical and cultural origins in the Delta is key to understanding how the blues were shaped. Over time, the Delta blues have touched virtually every form of popular music (rock and roll, soul, R&B, country-western, gospel), creating the soundscape of ou...
Sane in Pain
Personal pain management through mindfulness and planning. Includes tools and resources to help people in pain and their caregivers improve results from efforts to ease suffering. Healthcare strategies are devised by the reader and results tracked to inform decisions.
Josephine Baker's Last Dance
From the author of The Jewel of Medina, a moving and insightful novel based on the life of legendary performer and activist Josephine Baker, perfect for fans of The Paris Wife and Hidden Figures. Discover the fascinating and singular life story of Josephine Baker--actress, singer, dancer, Civil Rights activist, member of the French Resistance during WWII, and a woman dedicated to erasing prejudice and creating a more equitable world--in Josephine Baker's Last Dance. In this illuminating biographical novel, Sherry Jones brings to life Josephine's early years in servitude and poverty in America, her rise to fame as a showgirl in her famous banana skirt, her activism against discrimination, and her many loves and losses. From 1920s Paris to 1960s Washington, to her final, triumphant performance, one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century comes to stunning life on the page. With intimate prose and comprehensive research, Sherry Jones brings this remarkable and compelling public figure into focus for the first time in a joyous celebration of a life lived in technicolor, a powerful woman who continues to inspire today.
Black Enterprise
BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
