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Ten empowering books to read in celebration of Black History MonthFebruary 22, 2021 at 8:30 AM Anna J. Cooper once said: “the cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.”In observance of Black History Month, we are celebrating our prize-winning authors and empowering scholarship spanning a variety of topics across African American history, the civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz, and more. Explore our reading list and update your bookshelf with the most recent ...Tags: Books, Music, Featured, Africa, America, History, Biography, Louis Armstrong, Black History Month, Trump, Angela Davis, Nat King Cole, Editor's Picks, Stewart, Armstrong, Locke 13 people like this. Like As a Black Lord of the Rings fan, I felt left out of fantasy worlds. So I created my own | Namina FornaFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:33 AM Author Namina Forna loved JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis’ books as a child, but saw little that resembled the magic and rich mythology she saw in AfricaWhen I was a child, I was what you would call a JRR Tolkien fangirl. I read The Lord of the Rings over and over. I traipsed around the countryside, imagining it was Middle-earth. With just a flight of imagination, I could be snug in the Shire, exploring the mines of Moria, or even flitting through the woods of Lothlórien.When the first Lord of the Ring...Tags: Books, Fiction, Africa, Culture, Shire, Cs Lewis, Jrr Tolkien, Tolkien, Fantasy Books, Moria, Namina Forna 21 people like this. Like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to publish memoir about her father's deathFebruary 11, 2021 at 9:18 AM Notes on Grief will recount the life of ‘a remarkable man of kindness and charm’ and the author’s struggle to absorb his loss during lockdown last yearChimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a memoir about the sudden death of her father in lockdown last year. Notes on Grief, by the Orange prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah, will be published on 11 May. Her UK publisher 4th Estate described it as “a timely and deeply personal … work of meditation, remembrance and hope”.Adich...Tags: Books, Publishing, UK, Nigeria, Africa, US, Culture, Autobiography and memoir, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adichie, Americanah, Yellow Sun, Ngozi Adichie, James Nwoye Adichie 5 people like this. Like Spain’s Star BM – The 9mm “Not An M1911” HandgunFebruary 7, 2021 at 4:10 PM By: Vincent DeNiro
The left side of the Model BM with original Star stampings visible, letting you know it was made in Eibar, Spain. IMG Vince D.
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- In the milsurp market, $200 can get you far, but it’s hard to get more out of your $200 than with the Star Model BM. The Star BM is one of the most popular milsurp guns on the market, and with good reason. It’s able to balance price, fun, and practicality like no other. For around $200, you get a fun import plinker that can...Tags: Guns, Africa, Spain, Star, South Africa, Gear, Libya, Beretta, Eibar, Winchester, Vince, Guardia Civil, Rhodesia, French Army, Winchester Ammunition, INTERARMS 27 people like this. Like Henry Repeating Arms Side Loading 45-70 Rifle ReviewFebruary 7, 2021 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Guns, Africa, US, Las Vegas, SHARPS, Nelson, Winchester, Magnum, Henry, Mike, SBR, Skinner, Shooting Industry News, Firearm News, Henry Repeating Arms, Benjamin Tyler Henry 73 people like this. Like Novelist William Boyd says he’s had ‘the usual nightmare experiences’ working in TV and filmJanuary 29, 2021 at 11:41 AM Forty years ago this month, William Boyd’s first novel, the satirical “A Good Man in Africa” was published to great acclaim, winning the Somerset Maugham Award and the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel…even though it was technically Boyd’s fourth.
“While getting a post-graduate degree and teaching at Oxford University, I wrote three novels, which all ended up in a drawer,” he recalls. “They were like my apprentice work so my first published novel was really my fourth novel, which is why ...Tags: Books, UK, England, France, Russia, Nigeria, Africa, America, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, James Bond, William Boyd, Oxford University, Ghana, Southern California 23 people like this. Like The Book Stokvel: Africa writes; we readJanuary 26, 2021 at 2:24 AM  Tags: Books, Africa, Reading, Literature, Friday, Novels, Top Six, Thando Mgqolozana, Abantu Book Festival, Sarah Mokwebo, Stokvels, The Book Stokvel 100 people like this. Like Fabled ark could be among ancient treasures in danger in Ethiopia’s deadly warJanuary 24, 2021 at 4:45 AM Tigray’s rich heritage is ‘highly endangered’, experts warn, as the conflict escalates near key cultural sitesIt has been hidden from view for thousands of years, and its whereabouts never proved. But if the Ark of the Covenant indeed rests in a chapel in northern Ethiopia, this extraordinary religious treasure could be at grave risk from fighting in the area.The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, which reputedly houses the ark – a casket of gilded wood containing stone tablets inscribed with the ...Tags: Books, Africa, Religion, World news, Culture, Unesco, Heritage, United Nations, Ethiopia, Archaeology, Tigray, Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Paralympics 2012: archery 36 people like this. Like Coming to terms with recalcitrant kids and with mots populairesJanuary 20, 2021 at 5:30 AM  Tags: Europe, Books, Africa, Lukas, Kipper, Joseph Wright, ENGL, Kitz, Zicke, Sabine van Straaten, Wortmann, Wilhelm Oehl, Kitze, Zick lein, Ticcen, Felix Wortmann 89 people like this. Like WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO PLANT A DAPHNE?January 17, 2021 at 4:53 AM  Tags: Gardening, Japan, China, Africa, Nepal, Korea, Daphne, CC BY SA, Asia Europe, Simon Eade, DAPHNE BHOLUA Jacqueline Postill, Jacqueline Postill, Sergei Kazantsev 115 people like this. Like 'Cowboys for Trump' leader plans to bring guns to DC on the day of Biden's inaugurationJanuary 14, 2021 at 3:23 PM Tags: Politics, News, Guns, Africa, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Washington Dc, New Mexico, Dc, Biden, District Of Columbia, Donald Trump, Charles Davis, Griffin, National Park Service 136 people like this. Like Women & Literature: Zora Neale HurstonJanuary 1, 2021 at 5:30 AM  Tags: Books, Florida, New York, Featured, California, Washington, New York City, Africa, Alabama, America, History, Egypt, New Jersey, New Orleans, Literature, Philadelphia 145 people like this. Like Women & Literature: Alice WalkerDecember 27, 2020 at 5:30 AM Alice Walker, perhaps best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple (1982), has always been committed to social and political change. This was nowhere clearer than in The Color Purple, which brought to light questions of sexual abuse and violence in the black community, while demonstrating the liberatory possibilities inherent in every life. The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, who is the victim of systematic gender oppression, at the hands of first her stepfather and th...Tags: Books, Featured, Mississippi, Washington, Africa, America, United States, Literature, Pentagon, World Trade Center, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King Jr, South, Wellesley, Ruth, Meridian 12 people like this. Like President Trump Calls for Massive Protest in D.C. January 6th 2021 ~ VIDEODecember 26, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Guns, Congress, Africa, Time, America, Department Of Defense, United States, Arizona, Biden, District Of Columbia, Caribbean, Trump, Gun Rights News, Dean Weingarten, Gun Watch, University of Wisconsin Pistol Team 53 people like this. Like President Trump Calls for Massive Protest in D.C. on 6 January 2021December 24, 2020 at 10:42 AM  Tags: Guns, Congress, Africa, Time, America, Department Of Defense, United States, Arizona, Biden, District Of Columbia, Caribbean, Trump, Gun Rights News, Dean Weingarten, Gun Watch, University of Wisconsin Pistol Team 93 people like this. Like THE MONKEY LADDER - Entada gigasDecember 24, 2020 at 9:44 AM  Tags: Gardening, Africa, Gabon, Central America, Simon Eade, Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert, Cœur de la Mer, Caribbean northern South America 149 people like this. Like Issue with footnote pop-up (epub3)December 22, 2020 at 1:46 PM Tags: Books, Africa, Anthony, Soviet Union, Kohl, Nettles, Mallory, Viewer, Chernykh, Poliakov 127 people like this. Like 20 last-minute gifts for tea lovers - from new brews to fun teapots and moreDecember 22, 2020 at 9:48 AM Tags: Reviews, Amazon, Tea, Europe, Nordstrom, Gift Guide, England, Etsy, China, India, Africa, Trends, Features, Gifts, David, Nepal 125 people like this. Like HOW MUCH LIGHT DOES A FICUS LYRATA NEED?December 22, 2020 at 9:20 AM  Tags: Gardening, Africa, Elastica, Royal Horticultural Society, Simon Eade, Kim Starr, Parque Botánico de Maspalomas Gran Canaria Date, Krzysztof Ziarnek 99 people like this. Like IS FICUS LYRATA AN INDOOR PLANT?December 20, 2020 at 6:04 AM  Tags: Gardening, Africa, Elastica, Simon Eade, Kim Starr, Parque Botánico de Maspalomas Gran Canaria Date, Krzysztof Ziarnek 54 people like this. Like Master spy writer John le Carre dies at 89, agent saysDecember 13, 2020 at 5:39 PM LONDON — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89.
Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday that he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday after a short illness. The death was not related to COVID-19.
In such classics as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Honourable Schoolboy,” Le ...Tags: Books, England, London, News, Germany, Berlin Wall, Iraq, Berlin, Africa, Sport, Ap, Bbc, David, Austria, Britain, Soccer 49 people like this. Like Edna O’Brien on turning 90: ‘I can’t pretend that I haven’t made mistakes’December 13, 2020 at 1:30 AM Ireland’s greatest living writer is as ambitious as ever. She talks about working in Nigeria, coping with critics – and one final novelMost people approaching their 90th birthday would be forgiven for deciding that, whatever their work, enough was enough and it was time to relax.Most people, however, are not Edna O’Brien. Ireland’s greatest living writer has over the past week delivered this year’s TS Eliot lecture on Eliot and James Joyce for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre – Covid-19 meant that it was ...Tags: Books, London, Fiction, Boko Haram, Nigeria, Africa, Women, Culture, Ireland, Dublin, Focus, James Joyce, Eliot, Edna O'Brien, South Bank Sky Arts, Irish Embassy 10 people like this. Like ‘Travelling While Black’ extract: Africans can be foreigners in Africa tooDecember 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Travel, Books, Politics, Identity, Writing, Africa, Trauma, Migration, Capitalism, Refugees, Literature, Violence, Extract, Openaccess, Xenophobia, NonFiction 62 people like this. Like Thank you again & puzzles...December 6, 2020 at 3:31 AM Tags: Books, Africa, Uganda, Tommy, Dovegreyreader, Bookhound, Okehampton, Mama Joy 69 people like this. Like Trump, Jr. Head of NRA? ‘Fake News’ Says President’s Son…But Oh, the Uproar!December 4, 2020 at 7:00 PM  Tags: UK, New York, Board of Directors, Guns, Africa, US, Trump, Nra, Don, Wayne, Mother Jones, National Rifle Association, Richmond Virginia, Wayne Lapierre, LaPierre, NewsMax 60 people like this. Like Social studies: learning the past to influence the futureDecember 2, 2020 at 5:30 AM The events of 2020 have shown individuals living in the United States that race is ever-present in our lives. Consider the mass protests that have occurred all over the US—and spread around the world—following the death of George Floyd, and the economic and medical inequalities experienced by communities of color revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These historic events contradict the New York Times headline I recalled following the election of Barack Obama as President in 2008: “Racial Barrier F...Tags: Books, Politics, New York, Texas, Featured, Africa, Race, US, America, Barack Obama, History, United States, New York Times, Bob Marley, North America, Social Studies 11 people like this. Like Background Checks from Gun Sales Break Records for November 2020December 2, 2020 at 5:00 PM  Tags: Europe, Japan, Guns, Australia, China, India, Africa, America, Department Of Defense, United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, Gun Sales, Newton, ATF 101 people like this. Like Thank you...December 2, 2020 at 3:30 AM Tags: Books, UK, Africa, Tommy, Susan Hill, Dovegreyreader, Roger Borde 84 people like this. Like Small & Medium Caliber Ammunition Market Size Worth $12.7 Billion By 2027December 1, 2020 at 10:25 AM  Tags: Guns, California, India, Africa, San Francisco, Middle East, Tunisia, Grand View Research Inc, Shooting Industry News, Ammoland TV, Grand View Research, Ammunition Industry, Medium Caliber Ammunition Market Size Worth, Algeria Morocco Egypt, Asia Pacific MEA Central South America, About Grand View Research Grand View Research U S 95 people like this. Like 'Try again next time': my three visa rejections – podcastNovember 30, 2020 at 7:00 AM After being offered a prestigious international literary residency, Nkiacha Atemnkeng was excited for his first visit to the US – until he turned up at the embassy for his interview Continue reading...Tags: Books, Africa, US, World news, Migration, Cameroon, Literary Festivals, Trump travel ban, Nkiacha Atemnkeng 26 people like this. Like |
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