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In A Legacy of Discrimination, leading constitutional scholars Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone trace affirmative action's history and the legal challenges it has faced over the decades. They argue that in order to fully comprehend affirmative action's original intent and impact, we must reacquaint ourselves with the era in which it arose, beginning with the most important Supreme Court decision of the twentieth century, 1954's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

The patriarch of Golden Peaks is dead. The fate of the desert town is in jeopardy as the residents fear Howard Thornbon’s daughter will sell the dying town and displace them. But when his Last Will and Testament is read, everyone is distressed when a stranger is announced as the person chosen to carry out Howard’s final wishes.

Princess Penrose has a simple wish for her 21st birthday gala—a huge party, a new dress, and many eligible bachelors admiring only the birthday girl. When the Princess finds herself being hunted down by the very men hired to protect her, Penrose's only hope lies in a former Special Forces guard living in the forbidden lands.

God and Jesus Christ want you to be happy. What does that happiness look like? Feel like?—and how do we get there?⁣ ⁣ As brothers and sisters, buckle up and enjoy the ride as we journey to other lands, cross oceans, and scale mountains to really arrive at the answer.⁣ ⁣ If you have desires to receive this happiness, “look to God and live” on My Side of Maple Mountain.⁣ ⁣ -𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘙. 𝘓𝘦𝘦, 𝘏𝘰𝘴𝘵

In 1937, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo sent his representative, Dr. Enrique Aybar to America to enlist the greatest Negro League players—Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell—to represent his country in a national baseball tournament. The players quickly found themselves celebrated in a country with no race prejudice. What they couldn't know is that they were pawns in a deadly, winner-take-all political game for the soul of the country.

Melvin Flack has given up on his dream of becoming an artist until he discovers 14 paintings hidden in a derelict building in the Bronx. To his shock, they're signed by his idol, Claude Monet. And the subject! Is it possible Monet designed Yankee Stadium in 1921? If these paintings are authentic, who gets the 600 million dollars they'll get at auction? And what's in the mysterious journal that Mel finds with the art?

The newest student, fallen angel Gladriel, and her former squadron leader Kessian are in a race against time, struggling to find an ancient prophecy foretelling the purge of a quarter of humanity. But the four horsemen of the apocalypse—war, famine, plague, and death—aren't waiting for them to locate and decipher the cryptic tome before they begin.