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A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America - including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more - with a foreword by Jelani Cobb.

From the outside, it appears Billy Newman has it all. A successful businessman with a beautiful family, Billy has not only achieved his dreams of financial success, he also has realized his dream of playing golf around the world. As a sports writer for a national magazine, he has seen and experienced nearly all the world's greatest golf courses, from Pinehurst to Pebble Beach to St. Andrews and beyond.

Too Proud to Lead provides essential advice on how to avoid hubristic behavior that can endanger businesses, as well as cope with arrogant overconfidence in others in the workplace.

From the pages of The New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca West’s account of a lynching trial and James Baldwin’s ‘Letter from a Region in My Mind’ (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Félix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh and more.

Talking with Ancients is a weekly podcast that explores the wisdom and teachings of the Ancients. The continuing struggle to live a balanced life has so many searching for change. Change in the approaches we have to the way we heal, the way we interact, and even what we believe to be the real dynamic workings of this great living planet Mother Earth. The ancients describe an understanding of how to live what they call an ascended life. One that has mutual respect for all living things, acknowledges the impact of multiple lifetimes, and centers on the basics of the purpose for our incarnations ...