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What happens when one day you walk through the doors of your life and without any warning you are blindsided, left hurting and wounded? Emotional scars so deep that the idea of moving forward seems impossible. What can take away this pain that makes every breath so difficult? As the vibrance of each day loses its color, you have to find the strength to make it to tomorrow. Your children, job and family are depending on you to carry on. Each day becomes more and more tiresome until finally your strength gives way and you fall to your knees crying out for answers. Then, like a sudden powerful...

Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who thought through practical and theoretical problems regarding the nature of cosmopolitanism, democracy, race, value, religion, art, and education. Although Locke’s philosophical work has been discussed in parts, there has been no theorizing about how his different philosophical commitments fit together. In this book Corey...

Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who thought through practical and theoretical problems regarding the nature of cosmopolitanism, democracy, race, value, religion, art, and education. Although Locke’s philosophical work has been discussed in parts, there has been no theorizing about how his different philosophical commitments fit together. In this book Corey L....

Nani, an innocent little girl, faces a life of turmoil, chaos, and tragedy at the age of two. When her mother meets Calvin Smith, life as she knew it goes into a downward spiral. She is abused physically, mentally, and sexually. Nani is exposed to drugs and crime, and is told the father she never knew, is in prison. Nani finds a sense of peace when the Rogers family comes into her life. Mrs. Rogers, her kindergarten teacher, becomes the emulation of what a good mother is supposed to be, while Mr. Rogers, a pastor, becomes her version of a real father figure. Danny, the Rogers son, becomes the...

How can we create and sustain an America that never was, but should be? How can we build a truly multiracial democracy in which everyone is valued and possesses the needed political, economic and social capital so that democracy becomes a meaningful way of life, for all citizens? By critically probing these questions, the editors of Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy seize the opportunity to bridge the gap between our democratic aspirations and our current reality. In a moment of democratic disappointment and anxiety, politicians, policy officials,...