Ernest

After thirty-five years of diligent searching, author Barry Ernest found Victoria Elizabeth Adams, a silent yet key witness in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Belittled by the Warren Commission, Adams vanished into obscurity-but what she saw may change all we thought we knew about the tragedy. This is the story about the journey to find the truth in the event that shaped our nation and the research that led the author to a dark opposition...

As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counter history: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed. In Liberation Historiography, John Ernest demonstrates that African Americans created a body of writing in which the spiritual, the historical, and...

John Ernest offers a comprehensive survey of the broad-ranging and influential African American organizations and networks formed in the North in the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War. He examines fraternal organizations, churches, conventions, mutual aid benefit and literary societies, educational organizations, newspapers, and magazines. Ernest argues these organizations demonstrate how African Americans self-definition was...

Todo el mundo sueña con una mejor vida. Más dinero, mejores carros, mejor cuerpo, amor, salud, caridad: Ninguna de estas cosas viene fácil. ¿Cuántos de nosotros tenemos la voluntad y la pasión para mantener nuestras metas vivas y hacerlas una realidad? Muy amenudo, la mayoría de nostros fallamos. Tal vez la motivación se desvanece u otras distracciones aparecen en el camino. Pero todo se reduce a la auto-disciplina. ¿Sientes que no tienes...

Chilly realizes that his house needs to be freshened up with some new paint. He orders all kinds of paint but his attempts end in disaster. Finally, he takes some advice and orders some paint chips. In short order the paint chips become a bigger problem.

Detective Sugar Ray Hinton has a dead prostitute on his hands; a woman he'd just had sex with hours earlier. Who killed Casandra Dupree and why is a question Detective Ray has to investigate. His prime suspect is Frederick Williamson, the owner of two clothing stores in Nashville, a rich man and a philanderer who was involved with Casandra. Sugar Ray is shot at and witnesses are killed but the detective prods on and eventually the killer is unmasked....

US Army Sergeant First Class Randy Mosley is about to retire after twenty years of service. He expects his transition to civilian life to go smoothly but the sudden death of Private Perry Dickson, a clerk in the personnel office of the infantry unit to which Randy is assigned devastates him. The Army concludes that Perry's death is a result of a DUI but the swastika on the hood of his car, coupled with the fact that Perry did not drink alcohol because...