Lance Carden

This book begins in 1917 at the beginning of World War I and ends with a discussion of urban renewal, which took place in Boston's black community in the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on twenty-three long, taped interviews with prominent black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. It is thus a narrative about black politics taken from the memories of black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. The last section of the book is a curriculum guide written for high school and college teachers by the well-known black educator, historian, and author Robert C. Hayden. For each of the four decades between the 1920s and 1960s, it contains background information, chapter summaries, social studies concepts and topics, questions for discussion, proposed student activities, and suggested readings.

This book begins in 1917 at the beginning of World War I and ends with a discussion of urban renewal, which took place in Boston's black community in the 1950s and 1960s. It is based on twenty-three long, taped interviews with prominent black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. It is thus a narrative about black politics taken from the memories of black Bostonians between July of 1988 and February of 1989. The last section of the book is a curriculum guide written for high school and college teachers by the well-known black educator, historian, and author Robert C. Hayden. For each of the four decades between the 1920s and 1960s, it contains background information, chapter summaries, social studies concepts and topics, questions for discussion, proposed student activities, and suggested readings.

It is the thesis of this volume that Americans are still fighting, sometimes violently, the same Civil War we thought was over more than a century ago. If you are concerned about the political, medical, racial, environmental, and other crises currently testing Americans and their democracy, the first two thirds of this book are designed to both inform and to entertain you, including a number of poems about the divisive Donald Trump. The final section is composed of more personal poems about family personalities, fantasies, poetry, and a number of delightful animals.

This is not just a book about spirituality. It's a celebration of spirituality as a natural and essential element of self-realization and human progress. Each and every one of these poems is a potential epiphany. The poet holds up spirituality as the ultimate goal of all human endeavor and an advance beyond organic life, which is "a carcass of thought used & abandoned, dust to dust, by all that's ever truly us." The highest work of the poet, he says, "is to translate what we blindly see as merely matter back into the Spirit sphere." This book makes much of prayer, spiritual practice, and especially divine Love: "When we live in Love & it's in us, the world explodes in loveliness." Each poem stretches one's thought towards the divine--and is thus a rewarding Spiritual Exercise.