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Ancient African Gods and Cataclysm in New York Author: Nicholas Conde After the devastating death of his young wife, anthropologist Cal Jamison is at a loose end – especially because he believes that he killed her. Running from the past and trying to build a new life for himself and his son, he moves to the Big Apple, where anyone can fade into the background. Only, this transition from senseless death is hardly fated to lead Cal down a lighter road. A walk through a park with his fractured son turns up the remains of a gruesome ritual sacrifice and [...]

This land isn't your land... Author:  Steve Inskeep Over the decades, there hasn’t been a shortage of stereotypes when it comes to depictions of the displacement of Native Americans from their homelands.  From the civilized white Europeans taming the “uninhabited” wilderness to the savage and ignorant natives impeding the future of an entire nation, the clichés are plenty.  But it wasn’t until I read Jacksonland by journalist Steve Inskeep that I realized how inaccurate these stereotypes actually are. As the United States rapidly spread from the Atlantic coast in the first half of the 19th century, white settlers headed into [...]

"We can do hard things. Because we are Warriors." Author: Glennon Doyle Melton I was reading Love Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton's stunning memoir, when I got a pedicure last week. I had been carrying the book around with me everywhere because it seemed like Melton was talking to me personally, urgently, and I could not bear to close the cover on her. This hadn't posed a real problem until I found myself sniffling around page 200, as my feet were getting scrubbed. A sympathetic nail tech fetched me a tissue before my mascara started to run, but even if it [...]