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For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters—such as Sister Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and join the Black voting rights marches of 1965—were pioneering religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist theologians.

Three very different women. Only one thing in common. But when their family patriarch dies and they must share his estate, the truths they discover will test them - and everything they think they know about each other.

Cecilia Richards is single, saved, and sassy as her nickname implies. She is also an unapologetic know-it-all. Sassy has no problem pointing out the imperfections in others' lives, including her best friend Amber, who is involved in an illicit relationship with a married man, and her neighbor Jayna, who has a deep, dark secret from her past.

Race Rules is an innovative, practical manual for white people of the unwritten rules relating to race, explaining the unvarnished truth about racist and offensive white behaviors. It offers a unique lens from Fatimah Gilliam, a light-skinned Black woman, and is informed by the revealing things white people say when they don't realize she's Black. Presented as a series of race rules, this book has each chapter tackling a specific topic many people of color wish white people understood.

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners.

Want to become a more mindful leader? With Mindful Leadership for Dummies, you'll find accessible and authoritative guidance for cultivating focus, clarity, and creativity from within your colleagues. Packed full of useful tips, this friendly how-to guide will help you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style to manage and reap the benefits of a more attentive working life-all while nurturing compassion in the service of others.

Most of the top jobs for the future require students to have a strong foundational understanding of mathematics. Our failure to mathematically educate most students in general, and students of color in particular, is bad not only for these students individually but also for our society. In Choosing to See, Pamela Seda and Kyndall Brown offer a substantive, rigorous, and necessary set of interventions to move mathematics education toward greater equity, particularly in serving the needs of Black and Brown students, who are underrepresented and underserved as math scholars.

On March 29, 2020, when her church switched to online services because of coronavirus, Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly couldn't imagine watching the service in her robe. So, she did what she's always done; she put on a beautiful outfit, matching hat, and accessories and got ready for church. Dr. Wimberly, a self-declared social media junkie, thought "it would be fun to snap a selfie and post it on Facebook with a scripture verse and an inspirational message. I'd let folks know I was ready for worship and encourage them to do the same. This was my way to brighten their spirits."

Stephanie London led a life of comfort and ease in St. Louis before feeling inexplicably drawn back to her father’s roots in the tiny Southern town of Hope Springs. Charlotte Willoughby has lived there all her life and longs to make a new life somewhere else. Stephanie doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing there—or how to occupy her time. And Charlotte doesn’t understand why, despite her overbearing family and reminders of her failed engagement, she’s suddenly led to stay.

France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that "lifts the Silicon veil" to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. With a sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders, Twine shows how the technology industry remains rigged against women, and especially Black, Latinx, and Native American women from working class backgrounds. From recruitment and hiring practices, to social and educational segregation, to academic prestige hierarchies, Twine reveals how women are blocked from entering this industry.

Aspiring author Dr. Myaisha Douglas joined the Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group hoping to publish her writing, and never expecting to play amateur sleuth in a real-life murder mystery. When someone murders a friend and member of the group, Myaisha believes she can help the police solve the crime. An avid mystery fan, she relies on the skills she gained from those stories to catch the killer. Though determined to get justice for her friend, the amateur detective soon regrets her involvement when the deceased’s corruption and illegal dealings become public.

Just outside of Omaha, Nebraska, the relative calm at Offutt Air Force Base is suddenly shattered when commercial Flight 209 crashes down onto its runway. Major Tamika Smith must try to rescue survivors From the flaming wreckage and try to make sense of the tragedy.

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of fifteen activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities - using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates.

With the Black Lives Matter movement being widely relevant, hate crimes are on the rise, and Jennifer eyewitnesses the aftermath of Isaiah being shot - at the hands of her fiancé, Robert (on Independence Day). This event changed her life drastically as national headlines covered the “Fourth of July shooting”. With some protesting in Isaiah’s name, and others shaming him, Jennifer feels obligated to make an extremely risky decision.

Survey after survey reports that Americans have poor money skills and low levels of financial knowledge. They lack education and training in money matters. Many are using social media outlets for money questions and knowledge. At the same time these households have just experienced a pandemic that has reset how they value and approach money. They need a trusted knowledge resource to help them gain financial security. Stout has been written to help do just that. Good Money Habits in 17 Minutes Per Day provides the structure and framework to accomplish this.

Between These Walls tells the story of Alana, who thought renting out rooms in her grandparent’s home was a good idea. Until she learns secrets about her new roommates. Secrets that lead her in a dangerous direction. One she’ll have to fight her way out of to survive. In What I Deserved, a young woman finds herself torn after discovering her new boyfriend has a dangerous wife that wants nothing more than for him to have a fatal accident.

Taylor James has big dreams - dreams of being a well-sought-after reporter, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and traveling the world. Opportunity is knocking at the door with a killer finding his prey in the early morning hours in and around the French Quarter. Two deaths so far. The police can’t find a connection, but Taylor knows there is one. When she finds it, Detective John Bradley will have to give her the exclusive and let her get closely involved in finding this perp. As John and Taylor join forces to stop the killing spree, they find their desires shifting.

The novel examines three coexisting 19th-century American cultures: the privileged world of the South's antebellum slave holding, White Planter Society; the oppressed communities of the Black slaves; and the noble, nomadic hunter-gatherer society of the plains Indians. The turbulent events of this time in American history results in the two sisters finding themselves living in and experiencing the three cultures, and one sister is forced to choose between her lifelong love for her sibling and the love that develops between her and a Comanche Warrior.

Hester Trueblood can’t deny having an ancient, Sumerian goddess in her head has its perks. She enjoys her new strength and fighting abilities, things that would have been useful when she was a soldier. And the two handsome men dedicated to serving and protecting her are a nice bonus too. On the other hand, there are drawbacks. Having Inanna’s voice inside her head 24/7 can be annoying, and the constant threat of demons and monsters is a dangerous nuisance. The bitchy goddess and the evil hordes are problems Hester can handle, but the adoration of a demigod has Hester off balance.

Marcheline Fay claimed the father of her child wasn't in the picture. Now her daughter is all grown up and asking questions. When a decades-old letter gets mailed without Marcheline's permission, the lie she told might not be enough to keep them safe. Scrambling to find out who knows what and at risk of losing it all, Marcheline must reopen old wounds to make things right. Will he come after her? How will she face his accusations without sacrificing her hard-earned business empire? And will her family ever look at her the same?