"In this powerful and timely book, civil rights historian and political analyst Juan Williams denounces Donald Trump for intentionally twisting history to fuel racial tensions for his political advantage. In Williams's lifetime, crusaders for civil rights have braved hatred, violence, and imprisonment, and in so doing made life immeasurably better for African Americans and other marginalized groups. Remarkably, all this progress suddenly seems to...

In the middle of the twentieth century, oppression and racism were challenged by courage, leadership and a dream. The crusade for freedom promised to unite the nation and threatened to tear it apart. This important documentary program explores the dramatic quest for African-American equality in vivid detail, from post-Civil War Reconstruction through the revolutionary 1960s and the subsequent rise of Black Power..

"In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation...

An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the...

This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of Michael Harris in Ferguson, Missouri, and police and civic...

Durante las últimas décadas, la promesa de igualdad y su búsqueda han sido una constante en las prácticas, las normas y la reflexión jurídicas, lo que reafirma que ni el Estado ni los individuos deben decidir o realizar acciones discriminatorias guiadas por prejuicios y estigmatizaciones. De ahí que nuestras democracias consideren irrazonables y prohíban aquellos requisitos que puedan restringir el goce de derechos constitucionales: una estatura...

Los perfiladores policiales de migrantes son piezas clave para descubrir a personas que intentan salir ilegalmente de un país con documentos falsos o adulterados, sacar objetos, materiales y sustancias prohibidas, entre otros.Construyen identidades a partir de la experiencia adquirida en el trabajo de inteligencia que desarrollan que incluye entrevistas a los migrantes recopilando información que permite saber los motivos de su desplazamiento hacia...

Pseudo religious ideas are used to pass laws that prohibit its option. But abortion is essential to ensure that children will be born into families that want them. At lest as important is the effect on overpopulation and its result--climate change.Few realize that God told Moses that abortion is required in at least one situation--and tells the priests how to do it! But there is much more that pro-choise people should know.