Vivencias

“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary Clinton The four most powerful African American women in politics share the story of their friendship and how it has changed politics in America. The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years—Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway,...

Tras las huellas del verdugo narra un conmovedor viaje al corazón del país de Pol Pot, Camboya, una nación aparentemente pacífica en la que tuvo lugar una de las revoluciones más sangrientas de la historia moderna. Entre 1975 y 1979 murieron casi dos millones de personas a manos del Jemer Rojo. El camarada Duch, jefe de la prisión de Tuol Sleng y alto cargo de la policía secreta del Jemer Rojo, fue personalmente responsable de la ejecución de unas veinte mil personas, entre ellas niños y mujeres. Este sanguinario personaje fue el principal verdugo de Pol Pot. Dos décadas después el ...

A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native land.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...