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Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh explorer and journalist. Famous for his meeting with the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, Stanley searched for the source of the Nile as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium. In Origin of the Negro Race, he attempts an ethnographic description of the continent’s people beginning with Egypt and the North.

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857-1946) was an author and Presbyterian minister. In Black Masters of 1904, he discusses the little-known history of the free African-Americans that bought and sold slaves just like Southern white planters. Free colored men and women could own their families and in this way protect them against oppressive local laws. There was also the desire to attain a position of superiority over other blacks, an ambition to rise to the class of the masters and to be on the same level as white men.

Billy Smalls wanted to get out and explore the world. So, he joined the Army. He had no idea what awaited him when he arrived—drills, marching, in-your-face yelling by drill sergeants determined to turn him into a soldier. But this isn’t a story about deployment or combat or duties as a soldier. This story is a wild ride with the fictional Billy Smalls through his off-duty life. Alcohol, women, and crazy, fun-marked years of real-life events as a soldier. He entered the Army as a boy and walked away a man with a new lease on life.

This book covers the life and experiences of Lester Patrick, an African American born and raised in North Carolina during the Jim Crow and segregation periods of our country's history. It covers some events that took place following Reconstruction that led up to the Jim Crow period and Black and White Americans' attitudes that evolved because of these events. This book is written for audiences of all ages and races for this extraordinary time in our country's history. And it contains both serious and humorous experiences.

When veteran astronaut Capt. Butch Turner finds himself trapped in one of the gigantic voids of intergalactic space, he has a lot of time to think about things—namely his flaws, his past, and President Penelope Kane—his former lover, mistress, and the person who sent him (and three other crew members) on this ill-fated mission. Before that even happens, however, there is a roller-coaster ride of adventure and political intrigue and plenty of classic science-fiction leading up to it.

Happily married with the affection and respect of those he holds dear, Fabian Bloom finally finds inner peace. However, fresh nightmares about his horrific past start to plague the man's sleep, shadowing his newfound happiness and worrying the one he loves. A trip to his cabin in Montana offers the opportunity for the couple to relax. After reuniting with his two sons, marrying the man he loved, and watching his young protégées bloom, Lance Hansen has everything he ever wished for. When his husband’s past is revealed, the man is unprepared, and their world begins to crumble.

A poignant memoir of a Black man you don't meet everyday, emerging author Jason Hill has raised the standard of the nonfiction narrative. A introverted kid growing up in Chicago, Hill recounts in a voice you'll never forget how he overcame everything from family dysfunction, bullying, incarceration, and homelessness to forge his own unmistakable path in which you'll also recognize yourself. Vulnerable, well-written, funny, and inspiring, through it all, Jason Hill is brutally honest about his own flaws and shortcomings, holding nothing back.

Social Hill is both novel and memoir, the true story of a good man with great potential and a mood disorder living far under his potential, who's failed at just about everything: college, the Navy, more colleges, relationships, several jobs. Suddenly, at the age of 30, after just being kicked out of the military, he meets a naïve Caucasian woman 10 years his junior, and although they are not compatible in any way, he feels compelled to marry her after she unexpectedly becomes pregnant with his child.

My sincere thoughts as I wrote this book was to capture the many marriage lessons I have learned over time. One of the greatest revelations is that your marriage journey will always start with you. You can only control your actions. I can tell you that if you do not ask the right relationship questions, you will never get the right answers to sustain a viable marriage.

I have personally found that as humans, we often limit ourselves. Perhaps you feel that way, too. Interestingly enough, it's much more common than you may think. Many actually decide that they want to live a life limited in its potential! I hope to change that thought pattern for anyone who is interested. Every person you have ever met - in fact, every person you have ever heard of - possesses a hidden superpower. We, as humans, are all blessed with one hidden superpower - the greatest one of all. We all have free will, the ability to literally change everything we experience.

Generational Ignorance focuses on the relationship(s) between ideologies incorporated from inherited trains of thought and those that have been granted the option or encouraged to utilize them to propel "progression". This audiobook begs the question, "Why is ignorance, obnoxious behavior, or a pathway to prison vaguely considered when a child's inheritance is brought to the table?" Generational Ignorance presents a parable composed to denounce the myth that prized possessions predominantly comes in forms of assets, real estate, and positive productivity.

Modern times call for a new breed of men. We are living in significantly dynamic landscapes - always changing, evolving, and slowly morphing into the equality - and accountability-driven utopia that everyone wants it to be. Those who live by the rules of the old world are appropriately dealt with and toxic masculinity no longer has a place here. Everyone has seen how oppressive patriarchy is failing both men and women today.

When it comes to Emotions when dealing with the feelings after finding your biological family, it's like a spider web meaning your emotions can go all over the place. How you deal with those emotions is will determine how your soul can be set free.

Aspirational Justice author and subject matter expert Robert Spicer presents his global scale philosophy for healing and reconciliation. With a solutions-based approach, this method of aspirational justice for African Americans focuses on three areas of concentration: our shared suffering, triumphs, and healing.

They told me I wouldn’t live to be two years old because they found me starving on someone’s porch.... I’m 55 now.... They told me I wasn’t smart enough and that I didn’t need a higher education. I have an AA, BS, and MS. They told me I would never be part of anything worthwhile. I’m a member of MD-Military-Holding-Lodge No. 122 - MWPHGL of Maryland, The Monday Cub (Oldest Social Club for African-American Men in Delaware and maybe the Nation - 1876) recently resigned, The Drill Sergeant Association, and Bethel AME Church, to name a few.

This book is a collection of letters I have written to various groups in an effort to make suggestions to make people of all races embraces a better life for themselves and for the next generations, especially in the United State of America....

Joe Ruddy (rhymes with bloody) was a former military policeman. New to the Dallas Police Department and even newer to the detective division, Joe found himself being assigned to all the shitty cases the veterans did not want to investigate. Joe was a self-conscious alcoholic who wrote songs and sang in bars and honky tonks. He did not consider himself a professional singer but enjoyed singing as a hobby. His hobby made Joe the prime candidate for reopening an old homicide case.

Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and author. He was one of the first three black people admitted to Harvard Medical School. Delany dreamed of establishing a settlement in West Africa and visited Liberia, a United States colony founded by the American Colonization Society. He was a prolific writer, and his book The Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry, Its Introduction Into the United States, and Legitimacy Among Colored Men was published 1853.

The Jamaican orator and entrepreneur Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) preached success to the African diaspora. He believed that attaining economic, cultural, and political success would free African Americans in this life. Identifying integrity of character as the first step toward achievement, Garvey promoted capitalism as the means to establish African Americans as an independent group.

Garnet’s 1848 address to the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, New York, was published as The Past and the Present Condition and the Destiny of the Colored Race. In it, he elaborated on his convictions that the ancient Egyptians were Africans, that the Nubian warriors of Kush were celebrated by Homer, that the Song of Solomon was addressed to an African woman, that Moses’ wife was Nubian, and that Hannibal, Euclid, Origen, and Augustine were of African ancestry.