A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win." "So if I played four hundred rounds...
Civil rights
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Auteur:Jones, KimberlySommaire: - Auteur:Doctorow, CorySommaire:
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of...
- Auteur:Blutstein, HarrySommaire:
The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But...
- Auteur:Wilson-Raybould, JodySommaire:
An Indigenous leader who has dedicated her life to Indigenous Rights, Jody Wilson-Raybould has represented both First Nations and the Crown at the highest levels. And she is not afraid to give Canadians what they need most - straight...
- Auteur:Yoo, PaulaSommaire:
America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man...
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Auteur:Bausum, Ann.Sommaire:Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the...
- Auteur:Due, TananariveSommaire:
Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s. During the course of their seperate and remarkable journeys, the two women find themselves incarcerated and on the front...
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Auteur:Wolf Collar, LeroySommaire:Indigenous Peoples in Canada are continuing to assert their right to self-determination in this era of reconciliation. While dozens of Indigenous communities have signed varying forms of self-government agreements with the federal...
- Auteur:Lupick, TravisSommaire:
Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
- Auteur:Freeman, Douglas GarySommaire:
When Preston Downs, Jr., alias Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that returning home to Washington D.C. or to his adopted city, Chicago, would now be impossible....
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Written by legal academics-an American Indian from the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, a New Zealand Maori (Ngati Rawkawa and Ngati Ranginui), an Aboriginal Australian (EualayaiGammilaroi), and a Cree (Neheyiwak) in the country now known as...
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Auteur:Clément, DominiqueSommaire:Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that whereas framing grievances as human...
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Auteur:Nicks, John, Nicks, DenverSommaire:In 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in Oklahoma. As pressure mounted to find a villain, prosecutors settled on a black farmer named W. D. Lyons, who was arrested and tortured into signing a confession. This book tells the story...
- Auteur:Scott, AndreaSommaire:
Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be...
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Auteur:Kelly, James B., Manfredi, Christopher P.Sommaire:The introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was accompanied by much fanfare and public debate. This book does not celebrate the Charter; rather it offers a critique by distinguished scholars of law and...
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Auteur:King, Martin LutherSommaire:In these lectures, given a few months before his death, Dr. King analyzed the significance of the outbreak of riots in major cities of the United States, and, in the light of such outbreaks, restated his concept of the uses of non-...
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Auteur:Shelton, Paula YoungSommaire:Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
- Auteur:Borrows, John, Larry Chartrand, Fitzgerald, Oonagh E., Risa SchwartzSommaire:
Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws, and Canada's...
- Auteur:Joseph, Porsche, Joseph, FrederickSommaire:
Featuring over two dozen interviews with activists, authors, actors, and politicians, this is the essential resource for those of us who want to leave the world better than we found it.
- Auteur:Blake, MelissaSommaire:
Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN...
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