Product Description: Today's African Americans, along with the entire nation and much of the world, are facing societal challenges that are monumental. But are the problems insurmountable? Let us never forget a people and a nation that had to overcome slavery and wrestle with countless obstacles to freedom, justice, and equality over the years...read more

Book by Spivey, Donald

Product Description: Fire From the Soul: A History of the African-American Struggle is more than a summary of the important issues and events in African-American history and a listing of who did what, where, and when. This work goes far beyond the traditional textbook treatment of black history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. New and exciting dimensions of sport history are introduced by exploring its political, economic, social, and cultural aspects. Race relations and racism in sport, the interaction of sports and politics, sexism and the role of women in sports, and the role that the profit motive plays in sports are among the topics covered...read more