Tag: Black

Free Download Dr. Joe Brewster, "Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life"
English | 2014 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0812984897, 0812994485 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
As seen on PBS’s POV

Free Download Yolanda Williams Page, "Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World"
English | 2011 | pages: 534 | ISBN: 0313352038 | PDF | 2,4 mb
The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Free Download James Phelps, "Green Is the New Black: Inside Australia’s hardest women’s jails"
English | 2017 | pages: 374 | ISBN: 1525260820 | EPUB | 5,1 mb
Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison system. Nor is it Martin Bryant, the man responsible for claiming 35 lives in the Port Arthur massacre. No, the person in Australia controversially ruled ‘too dangerous to be released’, the one who needs chains, leather restraints and a full-time posse of guards is Rebecca Butterfield: a self-mutilating murderer, infamous for slicing guards and stabbing another inmate 33 times. But Butterfield is not alone. There’s cannibal killer Katherine Knight, jilted man-murderer Kathy Yeo, jailbreak artist Lucy Dudko, and a host of others who will greet you inside the gates of Australia’s hardest women’s jails. You will meet drug dealers, rapists and fallen celebrities. You will hear tales of forbidden love, drug parties gone wrong and guards who trade 40-cent phone calls for sex. All will be revealed in Green Is the New Black, a comprehensive account of women’s prison life by award-winning author and journalist James Phelps.

Free Download Black-Box Models of Computation in Cryptology by Tibor Jager
English | PDF | 2012 | 91 Pages | ISBN : 3834819891 | 0.7 MB
Generic group algorithms solve computational problems defined over algebraic groups without exploiting properties of a particular representation of group elements. This is modeled by treating the group as a black-box. The fact that a computational problem cannot be solved by a reasonably restricted class of algorithms may be seen as support towards the conjecture that the problem is also hard in the classical Turing machine model. Moreover, a lower complexity bound for certain algorithms is a helpful insight for the search for cryptanalytic algorithms.

Free Download Samuel Marolla, "Black Tea and Other Tales"
English | 2014 | pages: 75 | ASIN: B00PQZH4MG | EPUB | 0,6 mb
(Includes the short story "Black Tea", an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year 2013)

Free Download Peter Dennis, "Amiens 1918: The Black Day of the German Army"
English | 2008 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 1846033039 | PDF | 13,3 mb
Through the spring of 1918 of World War I (1914-1918), Germany had been on the offensive on the Western Front but had failed to break the Allies at any point. In July they had been forced back from the river Marne and were once again on the defensive. The Allies were now ready to increase the pressure. The Amiens area was selected and preparations were made in great secrecy with diversionary activity at other points on the line. 32 divisions were involved (twelve French, eight British, five Australian, four Canadian and one American) supported by over 500 tanks and overwhelming airpower. The first day saw an Allied advance of 5 miles across a 12-mile front, with over 27,000 German casualties. Progress was then less spectacular but by the time the battle ended on August 11 Germany had lost 75,000 men, and suffered a severe blow to morale. Amiens was notable for its successful application of the new combined-arms tactics, fully integrating infantry, artillery, armor and airpower at the commencement of the Allies’ final, war-winning offensive.

Free Download American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship by Niambi Michele Carter, Janina Edwards, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B086R81KF8 | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 10m | 110 Mb
At the same time that the Civil Rights Movement brought increasing opportunities for blacks, the United States liberalized its immigration policy. While the broadening of the United States’s borders to non-European immigrants fits with a black political agenda of social justice, recent waves of immigration have presented a dilemma for blacks, prompting ambivalent or even negative attitudes toward migrants. What has an expanded immigration regime meant for how blacks express national attachment?
In this book, Niambi Michele Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment, has served as a reminder of the limited inclusion of African Americans in the body politic. As Carter contends, blacks use the issue of immigration as a way to understand the nature and meaning of their American citizenship – specifically the way that white supremacy structures and constrains not just their place in the American political landscape, but their political opinions as well.

Free Download The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson, Recorded Books
English | 2016 | ISBN: B01AGRRWD4 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | MP3@64 kbps + EPUB | 137 Mb
A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America’s first black presidency, from one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today). Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama’s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race-as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from Obama’s major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?
Dyson explores whether Obama’s use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president’s desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling the fascinating story of how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage. President Obama’s own voice-from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for this book-along with those of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Maxine Waters, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation’s first black presidency.

Free Download Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris, Kristyl Dawn Tift, Tantor Audio
English | 2016 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01M046D9X | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 8 hours and 54 minutes | 122 Mb
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school. Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest.
The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures. For four years, Monique W. Morris chronicled the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged – by teachers, administrators, and the justice system – and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, Black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.

Free Download Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B097HRBF2Y | 2023 | 15 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Michael Harriot
Narrator: Michael Harriot
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights-after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.