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Books by
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Strength to Love /
The Measure of a Man /
Why We Can't Wait
A Testament of Hope /
A Knock at Midnight /
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1948-1963
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community /
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
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What Martin Luther King Means
To Me By Joseph
Cardinal Bernardin
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whom we commemorate
and honor in a special way this month, earned his place in the
history of this nation through his exercise of moral leadership.
Clearly, Dr. King was a prophet. He accepted the prophetic
vocation and he paid the prophet's price--his life for the
people. He sought to do in our day and for our nation what the
Biblical prophets did in theirs, namely, to assess the quality
of our relationship to God by testing the character of justice
in our social dealings.
Dr. King took the measure of justice in American society in
specific terms--employment and fair wages; equity and social
welfare; voting rights and political power--and found it
wanting. He knew what we have yet to learn fully as a nation:
that a stable peace within each nation and among all nations
cannot exist apart from the claims of justice. it was this
vision that shaped his dream for America and the world, and his
legacy call us to bring this vision to fulfillment.
By the time Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, he
spoke for the poor and dispossessed of this nation, and he was a
symbol of justice and peace in the world. his perspective and
his personal witness transcend race, nation, and historical
period.. May the national holidays we will observe in the future
motivate us to complete the work he began.
Source: Ebony, January, 1986
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Joseph
Louis Bernardin (originally Bernardini)
(April 2, 1928–November 14, 1996) was an
American
Cardinal of the
Catholic Church. He served as
Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 until his
death, and was elevated to the
cardinalate in 1983. . . . In 1983 Bernardin
developed the "Consistent
Ethic of Life" (or CLE) ideology, which
expressed his response to living in an age in
which he believed modern technologies threatened
the sanctity of human life. Bernardin's CLE
philosophy is sometimes called the seamless
garment of life, a reference from
John 19:23 to the
seamless robe of Jesus. The seamless garment
philosophy holds that issues such as abortion,
capital punishment, militarism, euthanasia,
social injustice and economic injustice all
demand a consistent application of moral
principles that value the sacredness of human
life (as defined by the Catholic Church). In
response to critiques from some
pro-life activists, Bernardin clarified that
the ethic never meant that all threats to life
were equal, from a societal or political
standpoint (see paragraph 11, section II of his
statement).
One of his
final works was writing a book about his own
dying, an excerpt of which served as a Newsweek
Magazine cover story, and which admirers saw as
a lesson in dying. While in Chicago, Bernardin
also served as head of the
NCCB Ad Hoc Committee on War and Peace,
which drafted the pastoral letter, "The
Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our
Response". This book-length document challenged
the morality of nuclear deterrence and sparked a
decade-long debate both in the
United States and abroad. Perhaps the most
well known of these discussions on nuclear
morality played out in the November 29, 1982
issue of
Time Magazine, entitled "God and the Bomb",
which featured Bernardin on its cover.— Wikipedia
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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