Cultural Literature

In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and women who were born under slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the New Deal's Federal Writing Project made an extraordinary and important decision. It sent interviewers to ask...

Larry P. Revisited is a timely effort on the part of a group of dedicated professionals to address failures to afford quality education for African American students because of faulty testing procedures. America can't afford to fail to fully educate its...

Read this book if you want to find out just how crazy Japan is about cats. In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train...

"Land of the Free" is a history of the US cast as a memoir in two cultures. Navigating between two nations, Author David A. Bedford discovered the cultural differences and similarities between Argentina and the US. The typical themes and ideas, heard and...

In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the...

This book accompanies a six-part streamed video series available only on MennoMedia.org.Racism feeds on denial. Lament moves us to tell the truth. And the truth can set us free. Stories of racial injustice fill our news feeds. Yet for too long many in...

This book accompanies a six-part streamed video series available only on MennoMedia.org.Racism feeds on denial. Lament moves us to tell the truth. And the truth can set us free. Stories of racial injustice fill our news feeds. Yet for too long many in...

Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book, says Entertainment Weekly about this absorbing and authoritative account of the greatest jazz singer in...

This collection of unique works by 151 Los Angeles graffiti and tattoo artists represents an unprecedented collaboration across the city's diverse artistic landscape. Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members...

TEXT IN FRENCHEl Alamein--where Rommel's seemingly irresistible offensive was stopped in its tracks as he sought to capture Alexandria in the summer of 1942. This followed many weeks of minor engagements, each side taking positions from the other in the...