Celebrated picture book biographer Jeanette Winter shares the story of champion tennis players—and sisters—Venus and Serena Williams. Before they were famous tennis stars, Venus and Serena Williams were sisters with big dreams growing up in Compton, California. In the early mornings, they head to the tennis courts, clean up debris, and practice. They compete in their first tournament and they both win. From there, the girls’ trophy collection grows and grows. Despite adversity and health challenges, the sisters become two of the greatest tennis players of all time. This inspiring story of sisterhood, hard work, and determination is perfect for budding athletes or any young reader with a big dream.
The Bold American Outlook Handbook--A New Post-Racism Paradigm for the 21st Century--Designed to Show Educators/Parents How to Teach America's Young People to Find Solutions to Racism's Legacy in Their Lifetime--is an unprecedented and essential handbook for educators and parents. Consisting of short, concise, thought-provoking chapters, examples and incentives, this handy guide shows educators and parents what must be taught to students/children to end racism's legacy in their lifetime. This handbook will detail how a 'language of racism' in the American discourse inhibits America's ability to end racism's legacy and find solutions to our social problems. There are no simple solutions to racism's legacy, yet you'll find that The Bold American Outlook is the most viable option today. This is the first in a series of books I propose to write showing Americans how they can defuse claims of racism and end racism's legacy in America's future. Adult Americans must establish a 'Post-Racism Paradigm'--a mode of thought beyond the concepts of 'races'--for young people if we want to continue our position as a world leader and, more importantly, if we indeed want to end this nation's most enduring social cancer--racism's legacy. The Bold American Outlook does not have an ethnocentric agenda. Instead, The Bold American Outlook has a 'let's show American young people how to improve their future human relations without the old paradigms of 'race' agenda.' You'll find that the included Bold American Outlook Principles are a vital asset for that agenda and for all Americans. If we do not act quickly toward establishing a Bold American Outlook, which will prevent young people from inheriting the false 'racial' concepts that we adults unfortunately inherited, then young people will become infested with the long-festering cancer of racism. Racism's legacy is capable of consuming young people and this nation into a 'race' war because of the historical momentum it has generated and because we adults have not afforded them a 'post-racism paradigm' to counter this historical momentum. Recent events only graphically demonstrate that the greatest enemy this nation has today is us. We create and re-create our own 'intra-American' enemies through a 'language of racism.' As long as Americans believe that we are so different that we must consistently categorize ourselves based on false 'racial' labels, then we will continue to base our decisions--often life or death decisions--on the confusing, arbitrary and deceptive notions of 'race.' The Bold American Outlook is dedicated toward preventing American young people from continuing the tragic perpetuation of racism's legacy in the United States in their lives and beyond. This book is for those who are looking for a future-oriented and solutions-based focus for ending racism in the United States.
Julia Jones is a married woman who is living the best of two worlds. She has a successful job on one hand, and at the same time, she is living the life as a woman who was in serious trouble as long as she continues to see Edward Walker. She was putting everyone in danger and she did nothing to stop what was going to happen in her life.
If you can answer yes to at least one question, this book is for you. Are you having ungodly nightmares? * Will my children be cursed? * Can Jesus remove roots? * Are you afraid of the spirits of black magic, white magic, root workers, voodoo, witchcraft, or tarot cards? * Have you been using anything besides prayers to Jesus Christ or The Word of God? * Have you ever been ill and there was no logical reason? * Have you ever heard a voice telling you what to do? * Do you believe someone has cursed you or a family member? * Have you seen unusual oils or powders in your home? * Have you been unable or afraid to go into certain rooms in your home or place of business? * Are you saved and have no one to turn to while going to a spiritual attack? * Have you had your future predicted using a fortune teller or cards read? * Are you in a battle dealing with spiritual warfare? * Are you a Born-Again Christian living on luck or superstitions? CALL UPON THE LORD; Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon The Name of The Lord shall be saved. (from everything and anything, In Jesus Name; Amen)
This social history narrates conditions that led to the founding of Kennedy-King College on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois, during the late 1960s. It connects the dots between birth of the college and the push for social justice led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SCLC joined with other groups in 1966 and launched the OC Chicago campaignOCO to tear down racial barriers. The main narrative tells how concerns with social justice and ethnic group efficacy gave birth to Kennedy-King College in the first place. As for political and cultural time of day, this was after the glory days of the civil rights movement. African Americans had pushed forcefully for social justice mainly with non-violent, direct action protest and had realized some gains. But calm change gave way to the black student movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Student activists used combative tactics to effect change at a number of college campuses in the city and nearby suburbs. With first-person accounts, the work reports details of the student led changeover from Wilson Junior College to Kennedy-King. Key persons who lived and made the collegeOCOs history during 1969-2007OCopresidents of the college, faculty, staff, and studentsOCotell their own stories from memories of their experiences in their own terms. In the main, this work has great potential as a general reference in African American history and culture. It also has clear value as a teaching reference about what everyday people with shared needs did and can do. It makes clear in the end why so many viewed Kennedy-King College as a symbol of African American self-reliance.
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