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Mr. Gokhan Mutlu filed a lawsuit in May against JetBlue Airways for more than $2 million after he was ordered out of his seat by the captain during a full New York-to-California flight and told to stand up or go "hang out in the bathroom" for the duration. Mutlu had only a gift ticket, and an off-duty JetBlue employee who had originally agreed to sit in the cockpit jump seat changed her mind and thus was given Mutlu's seat. Mutlu pointed out that he was un-seat-belted during turbulence and during the landing.

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by: Christine AllumsFreedom something taken lightly yet so hard to
maintain.
Freedom of speech, art, communication, all free
yet hard to
maintain.
Freedom to be as you would be...Freedom to
be
illustriously rich...Freedom to love, learn,
testify...Yet
all hard to maintain...Confinement is still waging
against Freedom, stripping away, chipping away
at
Freedom...Yet we will maintain Freedom...

Books:

An outstanding debut story collection, Z.Z. Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere has attracted as much book-world buzz as a triple espresso. Yet, surprisingly, there are no gimmicks in these eight stories. Their combination of tenderness, humor, and apt, unexpected detail set them apart. In the title, a Yale freshman is sent to a psychotherapist who tries to get her--black, bright, motherless, possibly lesbian--to stop "pretending," when she is sure that "pretending" is what got her this far. "Speaking in Tongues" describes the adventures of an Alabama church girl of 14 who takes a bus to Atlanta to try to find the mother who gave her up. Looking around the Montgomery Greyhound station, she wonders if it has changed much since the Reverend King's days. She "tried to imagine where the 'Colored' and 'Whites Only' signs would have hung, then realized she didn't have to. All five blacks waited in one area, all three whites in another." Packer's prose is wielded like a kitchen knife, so familiar to her hand that she could use it with her eyes shut.

Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report is no fan of books, but he has written one. It’s called I Am America (And So Can You!) and it contains 66.5 pictures of the author. What else is inside? Words of wisdom for you, Nation. Words like this:•“A Real Man is someone who walks through life the way a pilot walks through an airplane. Cool, calm, and checking out the sexy stews. No matter how tough the situation gets, a real man never lets on about the faulty landing gear.”•“‘But children are our future!” Yes but does that not also mean that we are their past? I don’t understand why we’re helping them. You don’t see union factory workers throwing a benefit for robots.”•“I’m not going to win any awards for saying this, but the elderly are like rude party guests. They came early, they’re always in the bathroom, and now they just won’t leave.”•“America used to live by the motto ‘Father Knows Best.’ Now we’re lucky if ‘Father Knows He Has Children.’”•“All Dogs Go to Heaven? Sorry, kids. It’s only the dogs who’ve accepted Christ.”•“Did you know ants have sex? It can’t be for procreation—there are plenty of ants already.”Depending on your politics, I Am America (And So Can You!) is either laugh-out-loud funny or terribly insulting. Whichever it is, Stephen Colbert is afraid of Koreans and baby carrots are trying to turn him gay.

Endorsed by Bill Cosby, Julius "Dr.J" Erving, Dr. Ben Carson, Tony Campolo, Joe Frazier, and many others, this unique book exposes racist distortions of African achievements, analyzes examples of African American success stories, and offers a process for individual healing and cross-cultural understanding. Truth-centric. Co-written by Don Griffin and Dr. Joel Freeman, this gripping book is a must-read for anyone with the courage to know the truth.

Randall Robinson is a towering freedom fighter in the world of ideas and action. This poignant history of his beloved Haiti reminds us of his indispensable voice for our turbulent times Cornel West, Princeton University

At the end of President George W. Bush's first term, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was prepared to leave politics and return to an academic post at Stanford University before she was drafted by Bush to be secretary of state. Two years later, polls showed American voters regarded her as the most powerful woman in the country. In this gripping and intelligent account, Washington Post correspondent Kessler chronicles those two years, drawing on his firsthand experiences traveling with Rice as well as an impressive array of documents and interviews. Kessler organizes the book by region, vividly dramatizing Rice's travels and negotiations overseas the chapter including her visits to Khartoum and Darfur is a standout while providing thoughtful analysis and historical background to put these vignettes in context. Kessler praises Rice for a number of successes, including her role in weakening a secret CIA prison system in Europe, but he also criticizes her failure to provide a coherent foreign policy vision and her weakness at implementation and follow-up. This balanced, detailed text offers invaluable insight into Rice's rise to power, though its exclusive focus on foreign policy may limit its appeal.

The late Gerald Levert and his dad, Eddie, share an intimate glimpse into their lives, their passions and their musical legacy.

True to its title, Mondo Lucha A Go-Go ..s the whole world of Mexican masked wrestling, moving from (midget wrestling) to the currently popular Lucha La Voom movement, which combines wrestler acrobatics with sexy American burlesque. It's all here, from the distinctions between tocnicos (good-guy hero characters) and rudos (the villains of the ring) to a thorough cataloguing of signature lucha moves, including the Top Turnbuckle Frog Splash and the Double Press Slam Gutbuster Drop. With guest essays and quotes from the likes of Olympic wrestling champ Kurt Angle, horror director Tobe Hooper, and William Shakespeare, the author explores some intriguing theories, like how the creation myth of the similarly shrouded Spider Man dovetails with those of lucha legends.

It's the dawn of the Great Tribulation, "the bloodiest season in the history of the world." After lying in state for three days, Nicolae Carpathia has risen from the dead. As the world responds in awe, statues of the potentate and "god" are erected in every major city, and a new religion, "Carpathianism," is in full swing. Followers of the antichrist are branded with a loyalty mark on their right hands or their foreheads, and "vaccinated" with a biochip embedded with personal information. Those who refuse the mark take a one-way trip to the guillotine. The second coming of Christ is only three-and-one-half years away. But can the Tribulation Force hang on?

The preeminent poet showcases new material inspired by love, celebration, memories and nostalgia, infused with her trademark deep, edgy conscience.

What is sacred? What is profane? What is acceptable and what offends religious and political sensibilities? S. Brent Plate explores these questions in Blasphemy: Art That Offends, a big, beautifully designed coffee-table book that analyzes many controversial works of art, including Theo Van Goghs 2004 short film Submission, a critique of the treatment of women in Islamic society, and Dread Scott Tylers 1989 What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag?, an installation that invited viewers to step on the American flag. As Plate explains, both these works provoked outrage with real-world consequences. Shortly after Submission was released, Van Gogh was killed by an Islamist militant who took sharia law into his own hands. As for the American-flag installation, the institution that displayed it promptly lost its government funding.

The rising democratic star and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Dreams From My Father" invokes the hopes and ideals that have made "our improbable experiment in democracy" work and proclaims his vision for more authentic politics.

In this updated edition, the Godfather of Soul tells--with pride and humor--his own rags-to-riches story of survival and artistic achievement. From his boyhood in a Georgia whorehouse, where Brown used music as an escape from poverty, to international fame, to recent brushes with the law, readers learn the truth behind the legend.

"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." �Sidney Poitier

The Covenant with Black America will not truly be a success unless we realize its promise. To do that we must act; act as individuals to do what we can to improve our lives and the lives of those in our families and communities that means becoming role models for the change we seek, volunteering, mentoring, organizing for change, speaking out, holding leaders accountable, and becoming advocates for justice. I hope THE COVENANT In Action inspires and helps you to become part of The Covenant movement. --Tavis Smiley

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Le' Duke Solaar'March, 2007

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