Presents the original report on poverty in America that led President Kennedy to initiate the federal poverty program
Nunley, John M., Adam Pugh, Nicholas Romero, and Richard A. Seals Jr. 2014. “An Examination of Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market for Recent College Graduates: Estimates from the Field.” Working Paper auwp2014-06. Auburn, Ala.
This book draws the connections between King's perceptive thoughts on substantive justice and the ongoing quest for equality for all. “A rich and novel account of the Poor People’s Campaign, King and the Other America challenges common ...
***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*** Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Finalist for the California Book Award Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A Los Angeles Times ...
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worke"
Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
Uniting critical writing on novels, poetry, painting, and ritual, this volume takes a regional approach to the cultures of the Caribbean Basin.
The goal of this book is to equip white people—politically, spiritually, and emotionally—to work for the liberation of us all, with Black Lives Matter at the center. (Publisher).
One of the officers shot and killed John Soto. The police said it happened when the boy started to scuffle with the officer; witnesses said the policeman shot John Soto without provocation. On October 10, five days later, ...
How Robert Kennedy emerged as a champion of the poor during the 1960s
Thomas corroborates the positive impressions of the center, saying, “It was more faith-based, but they were really pro-academic—they spent a lot of time on his alphabet and his numbers and his math and his reading .