The Kingdom Of This World

The Kingdom Of This WorldA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba's most celebrated authors, Henri Christophe's oppressive rule is observed through the eyes of the elderly slave Ti Nol, who suffers abuse from masters both white and

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Will the new technologies enhance journalism

historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s

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