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Historian Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America. Print run 250,000

"HR managers have been trained to think of themselves as cost centers, challenged at every budget cycle to cut, pare, and shrink expenses. Their staff brandish benchmarks and statistics to say how engagement affects business success, how the ratio of HR staff to employees is low, and how our turnover is too high. But with all these data, executives still roll their eyes and ask, 'But what impact do you have on our bottom line?'By breaking down organizational silos and using a process to generate and foster collective thinking, HR can shift the paradigm from developing programs, policies, and processes to improving the performance and productivity of the workforce. Repurposing HR presents a RoadMap for a new way to look at human resources in terms of the multiple roles that HR plays on the business scene. It will walk through each 'StopOver' on the journey, including the " purpose, objectives, knowledge, and skills required " work products " tools and resources that are useful to the practitioner. This is a compelling process for using the skills, competencies, and attributes of the HR team in a systematic and holistic way."--EBSCO

The past one hundred years were, without question, A Century of Genocide. Yet, the carnage did not end there. Wars, harnessed to the ideas of nationalism and racial purity and buttressed with the killing power that only industrialization could bring, also dominated the twentieth century. In the midst of this bloodbath, however, was the slow, halting, sometimes faltering development of international law and, more importantly, of the sense that there had to be some measure of justice not only for the dead but for all of the living ghosts, as well. Justice remained elusive as it competed with an international community trying to simultaneously penetrate and maintain national sovereignty. That high-wire act is central to the complicated role of the United States in international criminal tribunals. Adapted from the source document.

After World War II, South Africa, swimming against the tide of history, attempted to annex the adjacent international mandate of South West Africa (present-day Namibia). Pretoria was confi dent of UN approval for such an unprecedented move—too confident, as it turned out. Into the breach—and into the United Nations—stepped an unlikely duo, the Reverend Michael Scott and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to stop the absorption of 350,000 Africans into a white-supremacist state. This seemingly odd couple—a maverick, communist-leaning Anglican minister and a staid, staunchly anti-communist bureaucratic organization—launched a skillful assault in the UN to strip the veneer of legitimacy away from South Africa's annexationist scheme. Within the span of five years, the NAACP and Scott had carved out the political space and established the right of nongovernmental organizations and individual spokesmen to penetrate the boundaries of national sovereignty, speak before an international audience, and in the process reshape the UN, despite its founders' intentions, into an arena that could incorporate the voices of the stateless and the dispossessed.

"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens."--Provided by publisher

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: The Flow of Water -- 2: From the Ashes Came a Mill -- 3: Meredith Divides -- 4: Mechanical Genius -- 5: The Mill Next Door -- 6: Against the Odds -- 7: J.P. Morin: A French-Canadian Success Story -- 8: Power, Religion and Education -- 9: Morin's Mill -- 10: That's Men's Work -- 11: Relying on the Girls -- 12: Their Words, Their Stories -- 13: When One Door Closes Forever -- 14: Save the Mills -- 15: Another Door Opens -- 16: We Had a Good Life -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.