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The Black Fives

The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

by Claude Johnson ...

The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport.“For a game that has meant so much to the world, Claude Johnson somehow presents a definitive account for a part of basketball’s history that for so long was kept away from us. Claude is a superhero ... Read more

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The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport.“For a game that has meant so much to the world, Claude Johnson somehow presents a definitive account for a part of basketball’s history that for so long was kept away from us. Claude is a superhero
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BLACK FIVES: The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923

by Claude Johnson ...

Formed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America's first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City's overcrowded tenements by providing proper exercise facilities they could use without bias. The club's basketball team, the Alpha Big Five, became nationally famous during ... Read more

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Formed in 1904, the Alpha Physical Culture Club of Harlem was America's first African American athletic club. Conrad Norman, its Jamaican-born founder, hoped to address rampant lung disease among blacks living in New York City's overcrowded tenements by providing proper exercise facilities they could use without bias. The club's basketball team, the Alpha Big Five, became nationally famous during
... Read more
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The Black Fives

The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era

by Claude Johnson ...

Narrated by Claude Johnson ...

Unabridged

20 hours 46 min

A groundbreaking history of Black basketballAfrican Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From theinvention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of teams—then ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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A groundbreaking history of Black basketballAfrican Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From theinvention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of teams—then
... Read more

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Upon Further Review

The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

by Mike Pesca ...

Narrated by Mike Pesca, Shira Springer, Peter Thomas Fornatale, Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Lindbergh, Jonathan Hock, Mary Pilon, Steve Kornacki, Louisa Thomas, Nate DiMeo0, Jeremy Schaap1, Neil Pain2, Will Leitch3, Julian E. Zelizer4, Liam Boylan-Pett5, Claude Johnson6 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the
... Read more

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70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays

Passing, The Goophered Grapevine, The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others

by Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Still, W. E. B. Du Bois ...

Narrated by Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis, Peter Coates ...

Unabridged

50 hours 19 min

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were
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70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays

Passing, The Goophered Grapevine , The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others

by Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jean Toomer, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Jacobs, William Still ...

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were
... Read more

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Black Voices Matter

by Frances E W Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay ...

This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity ... Read more

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This anthology focuses on African-American poets. We start in the 18th century and end with the Harlem Renaissance. Many poets featured are, and were, rarely heard and have been painfully neglected. To be of colour was deemed at best to be second class so few of our poets had the privileges most of us take for granted or a means to market. Down the ages they illuminate the stain on our humanity
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets – The African-American Men, The

Five poems each from some of the best African American male poets

by Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, James Monroe Whitfield, George Moses Horton, George Marion McClellan, James Edwin Campbell, Jupiter Hammond ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Warren Keyes, Machelle Williams ...

Unabridged

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
Aviation Enthusiast's Library: 37 Books on Airplanes

The First Airplane Diesel Engine, Learning to Fly, Flying Machines Today, Gypsy Flight, etc.

by Robert B. Meyer, V. E. Johnson, Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper, John B. Rathbun, Harry E. Maule, William D. Ennis, Charles B. Hayward, George Anthony Cavanagh, Alfred Powell Morgan, Stuart Walcott, W. LeMaitre, Jim Ray, C. B. Galbreath, Margaret Burnham, Herbert Strang, Edward Sylvester Ellis, Percy F. Westerman, L. Frank Baum, Gordon Stuart, Graham M. Dean, Roy J. Snell, James R. Driscoll, Roy Rockwood, E. J. Craine, Noel Sainsbury, Stanley R. Matthews, Robert Shaler, Herbert Eugene Ives ...

Aviation Enthusiast's Library: 37 Books on Airplanes is a comprehensive anthology that captures the awe-inspiring breadth of aviation's literary tapestry. Encompassing an array of themes, this collection chronicles the evolution of flight through diverse literary styles, from technical expositions and daring adventure tales to visionary reflections on the role of aviation in shaping modernity. The ... Read more

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Aviation Enthusiast's Library: 37 Books on Airplanes is a comprehensive anthology that captures the awe-inspiring breadth of aviation's literary tapestry. Encompassing an array of themes, this collection chronicles the evolution of flight through diverse literary styles, from technical expositions and daring adventure tales to visionary reflections on the role of aviation in shaping modernity. The
... Read more
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

A Novel

by Lola Shoneyin ...

"Alternately funny, shocking, and sad" this novel about female rivalry and polygamy is "a complex depiction of family and culture in modern-day Nigeria." — Sacramento Book ReviewWhen Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness.For Baba Segi, his collection of wives and gaggle of children are a ... Read more

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"Alternately funny, shocking, and sad" this novel about female rivalry and polygamy is "a complex depiction of family and culture in modern-day Nigeria." — Sacramento Book ReviewWhen Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness.For Baba Segi, his collection of wives and gaggle of children are a
... Read more

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Daughter of the Merciful Deep

by Leslye Penelope ...

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South.“Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.”Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years ... Read more

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A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South.“Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.”Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other Black resident. Now, twelve years
... Read more

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The Great Cosmic Mother

Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor ...

A deeply awakening yet radical exploration of the Goddess, the divine feminine, and the cultural forces that have formed the female condition—A must read for all feminists and spiritual seekers“One of the most important books I’ve ever read.” – Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Color PurpleFor readers of Women Who Run with the Wolves, The Great Cosmic Mother offers a sweeping ... Read more

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A deeply awakening yet radical exploration of the Goddess, the divine feminine, and the cultural forces that have formed the female condition—A must read for all feminists and spiritual seekers“One of the most important books I’ve ever read.” – Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize Winning author of The Color PurpleFor readers of Women Who Run with the Wolves, The Great Cosmic Mother offers a sweeping
... Read more

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