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A suicide note or death note is a message written by a person who intends to die by suicide. A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics. [1]
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...
First edition (publ. Institute of Black Studies) Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams.Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". [1]
Radio Free Dixie was a radio program broadcast from Cuba by American civil rights leader Robert F. Williams in the early 1960s that advocated for racial equality. It called on black Americans to rise up against what Williams saw as an inherently racist system. The radio program featured music, political conversation, and storytelling. [1]
David Foster Wallace. David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [ 1 ]
Negroes with Guns is a 1962 book by civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. [1][2] Timothy B. Tyson said, Negroes with Guns was "the single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party ". [3] The book is used in college courses [4][5] and is discussed in debates. [6][7]
Marjorie Fenton. Jean Frances Tatlock (February 21, 1914 – January 4, 1944) was an American psychiatrist. She was a member of the Communist Party USA and was a reporter and writer for the party's publication Western Worker.
“The screams were blood-curdling,” Robert Ward later wrote in a letter to the Journal Sentinel. ... But when Williams returned from suicide watch a few days later, on Oct. 27, all four men ...