Autor Clyde W. Ford zkoumá hluboké propojení mysli a těla, léčivou sílu doteku a hybných terapií a naléhavou potřebu rasového smíření. Jeho práce čerpá z osobních mystických zážitků i z rozsáhlých zkušeností jako chiropraktik a psychoterapeut. Ford staví mosty mezi fyzickým a psychickým zdravím a poukazuje na to, jak mohou mýty a společné uvědomění léčit individuální i kolektivní rány. Jeho psaní je výzvou k aktivnímu zamyšlení a k hledání společných řešení pro složité společenské problémy.
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.