A Way Out Of No Way

Author : Raphael G. Warnock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593491546

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A Way Out of No Way by Raphael G. Warnock Pdf

On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael G. Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey. “Sparkling… a narrative of an extraordinary life, from impoverished beginnings in Savannah to his arrival on Capitol Hill. Along the way, he reflects with considerable candor and insight on the meaning and importance of faith, truth-telling and political and social redemption.”—The New York Times Book Review “A compelling, insightful memoir that details an extraordinary journey.” —Bryan Stevenson Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now as a senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us all to a higher moral ground. Senator Warnock grew up in the Kayton Homes housing projects in Savannah, the eleventh of twelve children. His dad was a World War II veteran, and as a teenager his mom picked tobacco and cotton in rural Georgia. Both were Pentecostal preachers. After graduating from Morehouse College, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater, Senator Warnock studied for a decade at Union Theological Seminary while serving at Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. At thirty-five, he became the senior pastor at Ebenezer, where Dr. King had preached and served. In January 2021, Senator Warnock won a runoff election that flipped control of the Senate at one of the most pivotal moments in recent American history. He is the first Black senator from Georgia, only the eleventh Black senator in American history, and just the second Black senator from the South since Reconstruction. As he said in his maiden speech from the well of the senate, Senator Warnock’s improbable journey reflects the ongoing toggle between the pain and promise of the American story. A powerful preacher and a leading voice for voting rights and democracy, Senator Warnock has a once-in-a-generation gift to inspire and lead us forward. A Way Out of No Way tells his remarkable story for the first time.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : 1433113031

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"Making a Way Out of No Way" by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

In barely forty years of life Martin Luther King (1929-1968) distinguished himself as one of the greatest social reformers of modern times: civil rights leader, defender of nonviolence in the struggle of desegregation, champion of the poor, anti-war proponent, and broad-minded visionary of an interrelated world of free people. His many verbal and written communications in the form of sermons, speeches, interviews, letters, essays, and several books are replete with Bible proverbs as «Love your enemies», «He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword», and «Man does not live by bread alone» as well as folk proverbs as «Time and tide wait for no man», «Last hired, first fired», «No gain without pain», and «Making a way out of no way». He also delighted in citing quotations that have become proverbs, to wit «No man is an island», «All men are created equal», and «No lie can live forever». King recycles these bits of traditional wisdom in various contexts, varying his proverbial messages as he addresses the multifaceted issues of civil rights. His rhetorical prowess is thus informed to a considerable degree by his effective use of his repertoire of proverbs which he frequently uses as leitmotifs or amasses into set pieces of fixed phrases to be employed repeatedly.

Author : Dianne Swann-Wright
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0813921376

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A Way Out of No Way by Dianne Swann-Wright Pdf

An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded Swann-Wright's ancestors, as commodities. Thus Swann-Wright took another route, setting out to gather spoken words--stories, anecdotes, and sayings. What results is a strikingly rich and textured history of a slave community. Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.

Author : Monica A. Coleman
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800662936

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* A womanist theology of change * Integrates postmodern thought, womanist theology, and process philosophy

Author : Andrew Young
Publisher : Nelsonword Publishing Group
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785275088

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A Way Out of No Way by Andrew Young Pdf

From a mountaintop decision to go into the Christian ministry to the testing of his faith in the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement, Andrew Young shares the pivotal moments from his spiritual journey.

Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604733500

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Making a Way out of No Way by Lisa Krissoff Boehm Pdf

The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in the next generation, moved increasingly into the middle class. Over seven years, Lisa Krissoff Boehm gathered oral histories with women migrants and their children, two groups largely overlooked in the story of this event. She also utilized existing oral histories with migrants and southerners in leading archives. In extended excerpts from the oral histories, and in thoughtful scholarly analysis of the voices, this book offers a unique window into African American women's history. These rich oral histories reveal much that is surprising. Although the Jim Crow South presented persistent dangers, the women retained warm memories of southern childhoods. Notwithstanding the burgeoning war industry, most women found themselves left out of industrial work. The North offered its own institutionalized racism; the region was not the promised land. Additionally, these African American women juggled work and family long before such battles became a staple of mainstream discussion. In the face of challenges, the women who share their tales here crafted lives of great meaning from the limited options available, making a way out of no way.

Author : Robert F. Lewis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1604732172

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Smart Ball by Robert F. Lewis Pdf

Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status through arrogant treatment of its fans and players and static management of its business. As its privileged position eroded eroded in the face of increased competition from other sports and union resistance, it awakened to its perilous predicament and began aggressively courting athletes and fans at home and abroad. Using a detailed marketing analysis and applying the principles of a "smart power" model, the author assesses MLB's progression as a global business brand that continues to appeal to a consumer's sense of an idyllic past in the midst of a fast-paced, and often violent, present.

Author : Jody Calkins
Publisher : Emery Road Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Way Out by Jody Calkins Pdf

Mistakes can get you killed...or locked away forever. Escaping Faction 73 was hard enough, but now Gabe and Emerson face a new set of problems. Dangerous, life-threatening problems. And ones that will test their resolve and their trust in each other. If they survive the round-trip trek across the fallen city to search for their friends, will their love be enough to forgive all? Ivy thought she had Shane figured out. Things were great. Well, as great as they could be stuck inside the prison walls with criminals and creepers. But then Shane reveals a disturbing secret. Now that her world is turned upside down once more, can she ever trust him again? The plot to escape DC Prison continues in this fifth installment of The Hexon Code series. No Way Out (The Hexon Code, Book 5) is a chilling young adult dystopian thriller/drama.

Author : Kirsten T. Edwards Williams,Denise Taliaferro Baszile,Nichole A. Guillory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429640032

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Black Women Theorizing Curriculum Studies in Colour and Curves by Kirsten T. Edwards Williams,Denise Taliaferro Baszile,Nichole A. Guillory Pdf

This book explores the curriculum theorizing of Black women, as well as their historical and contemporary contributions to the always-evolving complicated conversation that is Curriculum Studies. It serves as an opportunity to begin a dialogue of revision and reconciliation and offers a vision for the transformation of academia’s relationship with black women as students, teachers, and theorizers. Taking the perennial silencing of Black women’s voices in academia as its impetus, the book explains how even fields like Curriculum Studies – where scholars have worked to challenge hegemony, injustice, and silence within the larger discipline of education – have struggled to identify an intellectual tradition marked by the Black, female subjectivity. This epistemic amnesia is an ongoing reminder of the strength of what bell hooks calls "imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy", and the ways in which even the most critical spaces fail to recognize the contributions and even the very existence of Black women. Seeking to redress this balance, this book engages the curricular lives of Black women and girls epistemologically, bodily, experientially, and publicly. Providing a clarion call for fellow educators to remain reflexive and committed to emancipatory aims, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking an exploration of critical voices from nondominant identities, perspectives, and concerns. This book was originally published as a special issue of Gender and Education.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253040367

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"Right Makes Might" by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the 14th century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the 19th century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by today's well-known politicians, including Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women's rights, and the civil rights movement. By looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.

Author : Leonard Cornell McKinnis II
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479816453

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The Black Coptic Church by Leonard Cornell McKinnis II Pdf

Provides an illuminating look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, focusing particularly outside of mainstream Christian churches From the Moorish Science Temple to the Peace Mission Movement of Father Divine to the Commandment Keepers sect of Black Judaism, myriad Black new religious movements developed during the time of the Great Migration. Many of these stood outside of Christianity, but some remained at least partially within the Christian fold. The Black Coptic Church is one of these. Black Coptics combined elements of Black Protestant and Black Hebrew traditions with Ethiopianism as a way of constructing a divine racial identity that embraced the idea of a royal Egyptian heritage for its African American followers, a heroic identity that was in stark contrast to the racial identity imposed on African Americans by the white dominant culture. This embrace of a royal Blackness—what McKinnis calls an act of “fugitive spirituality”—illuminates how the Black Coptic tradition in Chicago and beyond uniquely employs a religio-performative imagination. McKinnis asks, ‘What does it mean to imagine Blackness?’ Drawing on ten years of archival research and interviews with current members of the church, The Black Coptic Church offers a look at a group that insisted on its own understanding of its divine Blackness. In the process, it provides a more complex look at the diverse world of Black religious life in North America, particularly within non-mainstream Christian churches.

Author : U. G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : EAN:8596547778127

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No Way Out by U. G. Krishnamurti Pdf

"Whatever you experience has already been experienced by someone else. Your telling yourself, "Ah! I am in a blissful state," means that someone else before you has experienced that and has passed it on to you. Whatever may be the nature of the medium through which you experience, it is a second-hand, third-hand, and last-hand experience. It is not yours. There is no such thing as your own experience. Such experiences, however extraordinary, aren't worth a thing."

Author : Katie Walker Grimes
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506416731

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Fugitive Saints by Katie Walker Grimes Pdf

How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. In this way, the church celebrates Peter Claver, a seventeenth-century Spanish missionary to Colombia, as “the saint of the slave trade,” and extols Martín de Porres as the patron saint of mixed race people. But in truth, their sainthoods have upheld anti-blackness much more than they have undermined it. Habituated by anti-blackness, the church has struggled to perceive racial holiness accurately. In the ongoing cause to canonize Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian-born former slave, the church continues to enact these bad racial habits. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a historical practice and an interpretive principle, to be a strategy by which the church can build new hagiographical habits. Rather than searching inside itself for racial heroes, the church should learn to celebrate those black fugitives who sought refuge outside of it.

Author : 商務印書館
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1954 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : English laguage
ISBN : UCAL:$B355093

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華英音韻字典集成 by 商務印書館 Pdf

Author : Dr. Betty F. Minus-Murrell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504969765

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Unbogus by Dr. Betty F. Minus-Murrell Pdf

“Who you see is who I am, and what you see is what you get!” How many of us can say these words and mean it? Too many people hide behind masks of pretense, whether it is socially, emotionally, spiritually, or physically simply to gain the approval or acceptance of others. One of the greatest challenges many people face today, especially Christians, is trying to live an authentic (unbogus) life in a world full of fake (bogus) people. Thus, this book is a real eye-opener on the subject of bogusness versus unbogusness. The author gives valuable insight into how to avoid living a bogus life and how to pursue an unbogus life. Having your outer man match your inner man is the goal of this book. This powerfully written book will also challenge you to rise above your unbogus behavior and find true contentment, peace, and self-worth. Finally, this book will give you a game plan to cast out areas of unbogusness in your life that have kept you from living your best life.