Clyde W. Ford duikt in de diepgaande verbinding tussen lichaam en geest, waarbij hij de helende kracht van aanraking en bewegingstherapieën onderzoekt, naast de dringende noodzaak van raciale verzoening. Zijn werk is geïnformeerd door persoonlijke mystieke ervaringen en uitgebreide praktijk als chiropractor en psychotherapeut. Ford bouwt bruggen tussen fysiek en psychologisch welzijn, en toont aan hoe mythen en collectief bewustzijn zowel individuele als maatschappelijke wonden kunnen helen. Zijn schrijven daagt lezers uit om actief betrokken te raken en gedeelde oplossingen te zoeken voor complexe maatschappelijke problemen.
Antoney and Isabell -- Piracy and European Wealth -- Servants or Slaves? -- From Servitude to Slavery -- Legislating Faith, Love, and Lust -- Runaways and Rebels -- A House Built on Smoke -- Founding Debtors, Founding Documents -- A Great White Hope -- I Can't Breathe -- Before the Mast -- Over Coffee -- Hell on Wheels -- The Only Cowardly Blood -- A Second American Revolution -- Back Again Toward Slavery.
John Shannon's son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism, a mystical order of Islam. The popular musician also happens to be on a terrorist watch list. When al-Salaam is shot outside a Manhattan nightclub, Shannon agrees to investigate the murder as a favor to J. J. Was al-Salaam entangled in a feud with East Coast gangsta rapper T-Mo? Or was he caught on the wrong side of Islam extremism?The NYPD has given up on the case and, after a close call with T-Mo's thugs, so has Shannon. But something--curiosity, ego, anger?--drives him to penetrate the murky mystery surrounding al-Salaam, whose search for enlightenment reminds Shannon of his own quest for personal growth.
"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"--
Framed for murder and released from prison on appeal, former police detective John Shannon is determined to clear his name, a task complicated by an ex-CIA agent with mob connections and the abduction of his son.