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In this classic work, Professor George G. M. James methodically shows how the Greeks first borrowed and then stole the knowledge from the Priests of the African (Egyptian) Mystery System. He shows how the most popular philosophers including Thales, Anaximander, Plato and Socrates were all treated as men bringing a foreign teaching to Greece. A teaching so foreign that they were persecuted for what they taught.

In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had been that China's brutal one-child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the care of adopted parents.

This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher...

Before hip-hop became a global industry, it was an act of survival. Born in abandoned neighborhoods and powered by borrowed electricity, hip-hop transformed forgotten records into living history. DJs did not create new sounds from silence—they excavated them from the past. Funk breaks, jazz fragments, soul shouts, and outlawed rhythms were cut, looped, and reborn as something entirely new.

A memoir of trauma and transformation by a man who was haunted by childhood abuse but who fought his way back—a journey from vengeance and prison to freedom and redemption. For a boy growing up in the 1970s, rural northern New Jersey was a year-round playground, filled with secret fishing...

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life. A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp, but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man....

STOLEN LIVES is a podcast dedicated to spreading the stories of those who are forgotten. Those whose lives were stolen. The missing and murdered. STOLEN LIVES tells the stories of these people to keep their memory alive.

Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the United States for adoption into “good” Catholic homes. With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters and a Church and State wanting “illegitimate” children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn’t understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline.

The unbelievable true story of how one man stole tens of thousands of priceless artifacts and human remains from around the world—and the FBI’s massive undertaking to set things right. In The Grave Robber, Tim Carpenter, former FBI Lead Investigator on the Art Crime Team, recounts one of the...

Before they let us in... we built our own game. This isn't just a baseball podcast. This is a conversation about Black excellence, Black erasure, and what happens when a people are locked out of the game they helped define. They created the Negro Leagues, packed those stands with community and culture, built Black-owned businesses around the ballpark, and produced legends so gifted that folklore could barely hold their stories. Every episode of Stolen Bases peels back another layer. We talk about what was built, what was lost, and what was deliberately taken. We talk about the generational ...

The Sound America Loved—And the Discipline It ForgotBefore American music filled stadiums, sold records, or powered billion-dollar industries, it was something far more dangerous: a system for survival. The Church of Stolen Sound is not a celebration of genres or a parade of famous names. It is a forensic history of how Black churches built a disciplined technology of sound—call and response, trained emotion, communal timing, and shared authority—and how America learned to extract the power of that sound while discarding the people and structures that made it possible.

It's time to break free from the clutches of narcissistic abuse, and reclaim your power as a black woman. In this book, you will find the tools and knowledge to recognize and escape abusive situations, heal from the trauma, and embrace a future filled with self-love and empowerment.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Goop Book Club Pick “Essential . . . We need...

Dr. Darrell Racine presents the true history of scientific discovery in North America, rooted in indigenous culture.

Step into a world where your melanin becomes a source of power and enlightenment. Imagine embracing the Divine Feminine within you, connecting with ancient African practices, and reclaiming your true essence. In this captivating guide, you will embark on a transformative journey that celebrates the sacredness of being a Black Woman.

The epilogue is read by the author. "An unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance. I did not stop crying throughout. For Mills. For my young self. For all of us who have lived and continue to live in that pitiless abyss of childhood abuse. To read this courageous...

This book will teach you ways to overcome the anger, disparity and hurt that is associated with sexual assault. It affects everyone. This book is about real people who overcame the impossible and found healing, happiness, family, and love in the process...and you can too!

Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.

There is a grisly murder in your neighborhood. You stand outside with your neighbors and watch, or maybe you peek out your curtains. Hours pass, then days, maybe years. Then one day there is a knock at your door, and the police take you in for questioning. Do you remember what happened? Do you have an alibi? Can you take countless hours of interrogation without breaking? This can happen to you. And it happens to more people than you think.

We know women are as good as men—so why haven’t we heard of more women? Allison Tyra brings together more than 600 stories, encompassing thousands of women from throughout history, around the world, and across different fields, combined with statistics, research, and other data to answer this fundamental question and challenge ingrained misconceptions about women and their work.