We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For by Eddie Glaude Jr., begins with a story about five Black men who made it to heaven and were instructed to wait for Gabriel to provide instructions on how to use their wings. However, one angel decides to take matters into his own hands and starts flying.
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Scott Jenkins’ Cryptocurrency series takes the reader from a basic understanding of cryptocurrency to the technical infrastructure behind it, then to trading and investing, and ultimately to long-term success and wealth building. Each book builds on the previous one. Understanding Cryptocurrency Starts with Understanding Money One of the keys to understanding cryptocurrency in Book One
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The Law of Success by Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, is an easy, inspirational, and motivational read filled with important messages and anecdotes for just about everyone. Whether you are religious, spiritual, believe in a higher power, or rely primarily on willpower and the strength of the individual, there is something in
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They Stole a City, Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy by Lauren Collins is another chapter in American history where gains by Blacks were met with a violent backlash. After reconstruction, Wilmington, North Carolina, was home to a thriving Black middle class of doctors, lawyers, business owners, skilled tradesmen
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Society is obsessed with controlling women. Whether it’s the Salem Witch Trials, the overturning of Roe V. Wade, or the rise of ‘incel’ culture, history has proven time and time again that there’s an infatuation with monitoring how women exist in their bodies. When a woman naturally embodies a spirit that defies these systems of
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Some books are just for fun, others teach you something new, and a few actually change how you see the world. Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic is one of those rare books. Dr. Rob Gore, an emergency room physician, blends his own story, real-life medical experiences, and sharp
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What is beauty? How do we, as a culture, define what’s beautiful? How does the dominant culture impact beauty standards? Toni Morrison explores these questions of beauty in her haunting and timeless novel, The Bluest Eye. In it, the prolific writer and Howard alum draws tells the story of a young Black girl named Pecola
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Summer is here and it is also time to get into some summer reading. In school, there used to be summer reading lists, book reports, and required reading for the upcoming school year. Once school ended, a lot of us left reading behind. Summer is the optimal reading season for many reasons. For one, you
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Take Me to Your Leader, Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil deGrasse Tyson is a witty, playful, mind-bending, and challenging combination of science, physics, history, sociology, psychology, and all the other ‘ologies combined. This world-renowned astrophysicist challenges everything from creation, UFOs, and religion to basic common sense deftly and with humor. It starts
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates grabs you right from the beginning and refuses to let you go. The very first chapter, “Journalism Is Not a Luxury,” resonated with me immediately and with the mission of The DC Voice. The book starts with Coates recounting the summer of 2022, when he returns to Howard University to
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