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is based upon apoll conducted by the weekly PBS television program RELIGION AND ETHICSNEWSWEEKLY and U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT. How religious is America? How are Americans religious? Based on asurvey of religious tolerance, beliefs, and practices in the U.S. today,EXPLORING RELIGIOUS AMERICA presents data and video stories in four areas:religious diversity, Protestants, Catholics, and spirituality in America.Leading scholars comment on the stories videotaped across the country. Muslims and their neighbors in SuburbanAtlanta face the challenge of religious tolerance. Segments on mainlineProtestants in Virginia, evangelical Protestants in Georgia, andAfrican-American Protestants in Indianapolis reflect the changing influence ofProtestant ideas and ideals. Irish-American and Hispanic Catholics in Chicago show the meaning oftheir faith. Spiritual seekers apartfrom organized religion, yet within it, illustrate the importance of spiritualfaith ... [Read More]
Talking Book Topics--March-April 1998, Adults Fiction
A melodrama set in Dublin in the 1920s just after the Irishrebellion. Francis McPhillip, who has killed a man and been inhiding for six months, has returned to Dublin to see his family.He is betrayed to the police by Gypo Nolan, and when surrounded,Francis shoots himself. Hunted by members of the revoluntionaryorganization, Gypo finds Mrs. McPhillip, Francis's mother, inchurch, and begs her forgiveness. 1925. ... Four Washington women (a Supreme Court nominee, a prestigiouscaterer, a journalist, and a congresswoman) are waiting forWhite House press secretary Faith Paige to join them for theirregular lunch when they learn she was found dead in the Potomac.As the women try to determine why and if their friend committedsuicide, they are thwarted by White House insiders and theirlives are thrown into turmoil. Some strong language. 1994. ... [Read More]
Administration on Aging - You Can! Steps to Healthier Aging Campaign - Partners
Hillsborough County, Department of Aging Services, Senior Citizen Nutrition and Activity Program ... [Read More]
Braille Book Review--January-February 1999, Adult Fiction
Irene Lorenzo's faith has been tested as a result of her divorce from Greg Mitchell. Now Joel Costain, a blind lawyer, has approached Irene seeking information about Greg, who claimed to be Joel's brother and has now died under mysterious circumstances. As the two search for answers, Irene begins to regain her faith. 1996. ... Maggie : A Girl of the Streets and Selected Stories BR 11578 ... Alden, the aunt of writer Grace Livingston Hill, wrote novellas in the nineteenth century. Here she illustrates how a person of good character should behave. In "What She Said...," a gossip is shown just how harmful her behavior is, and in "People Who Haven't Time...," neighbors are reminded of their charitable obligations. 1997. ... [Read More]
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PW 2003, African American Adult Books
The Darkest Child (Jan., $26) by Delores Phillips. In segregated Georgia, a girl's worst tormentor is the beautiful light-skinned mother she loves and fears. ... "You hear a lot of interesting stories growing up in the South," writes Mississippi native Alan Huffman in his Gotham Books introduction to Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today ."And if you listen closely, you can't help wondering how much of what you're told is true." The story that captured Huffman was that of Prospect Hill, a Mississippi plantation whose 200 freed slaves were repatriated in 1849 to the newly established West African colony of Liberia. After receiving a piano that had reportedly survived a slave uprising at the plantation, Huffman's curiosity about what had really happened there led him from the impoverished bayous of Mississippi to war-torn modern-day Liberia, interviewing descendants of the plantation. The result is an account of the devastating consequences of colonialism and what it means for Americans and Liberians today. ... [Read More]
Library Journal: The Souls of Black Folk
Norton, an African American attorney and the congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, continues to effect political changes. Over the years, she has marched on Capitol Hill to demand a Senate hearing for Anita Hill, grilled army generals about sex abuse, and argued before the Supreme Court. This is the story of her struggles and triumphs. Fiction ... In this follow-up to Revenge Is Best Served Cold , life takes an unexpected turn for best friends Morgan and Dakota. Though their careers are in high gear, each finds her personal life in a shambles, with complications that include a pregnancy, an unfaithful husband, and a secret. ... [Read More]
Tobacco Control Media Events Calendar | February 2005 | Black History Month Tobacco Control Guide
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the fou ... [Read More]
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