THE WHITE PEOPLE
CHAPTER I
Perhaps the things which happened could only have
happened to me. I do not know. I never heard
of things like them happening to any one else.
But I am not ...
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English-born American author Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a long and productive writing career, during which she penned 55 titles, 5 of which became best-sellers and 13 of which were adapte...
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During her own lifetime Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), the story of a disinherited American boy who charms his irascible English grandfather and wins back hi...
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Frances Hodgson Burnett is chiefly remembered for her children's book The Secret Garden (1911). With its rich mythic resonances and detailed portrayal of its child protagonists, the novel is hailed as...
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A lawyer for the city's first black district attorney told a federal appeals court Monday that jurors who decided he discriminated in firing dozens of white employees had too little evidence to rea...
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The British and Cherokee nations, each finding the other strange and curious, sought peace when they sent delegates to each other in 1762. A new exhibit details both sides, through the eyes of the ...
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LONDON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Amazon Indian tribes have been
infected and weakened by "white man's diseases" which they
cannot fight off and which put one of the earth's vital life
sources at risk, a...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of black Americans
marched around the U.S. Justice Department Friday to protest
what they described as heavy-handed law enforcement and a
reluctance to prosecute r...
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At Miami Beach’s retro eatery Johnny Rockets, budding songstress Brittany Dowdell, aka Bayje (pronounced “beige”), ponders her dual identities while the greasy bliss of a pile of ...
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A move is underway to put Robert Moses back up on the pedestal where he stood in the 1930’s. If the people backing the rehabilitation of New York’s quondam transportation, housing and r...
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So, it's after 6 p.m. and there are probably only a little over two dozen people. Most of them older-looking neighborhood types who really don't strike me as DP fans, but whatever. I've spotted a c...
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Lilly Ledbetter says her former employer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber GT, kept her wages low because of a sex bias incident dating back to the 1980s. Too bad she waited until 1998 to take legal acti...
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Long after the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa was stripped of its land and scores of its people had been moved to Canada, the 4,300 surviving members are fighting to reclaim the shards of their pas...
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The White People
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances (Eliza) Hodgson Burnett
Orleans DA fights discrimination ruling
