Frankie Hutton Livres

Focusing on the pre-Civil War black press, the book analyzes newspapers and magazines from the 1830s to the 1860s, revealing their significant role in shaping black journalism in America. It highlights the socially responsible nature of this often-overlooked ethnic press and its interactions with the broader journalism landscape during a challenging period. This revisionist perspective offers valuable insights for readers interested in African-American cultural history.

Throughout history and across cultures, important figures such as Nostradamas in France, Daniel Andreeve in Russia, Dr. Edward Bach in England, and Dr. Tomin Harada in Japan have brought to light the symbolic and medicinal qualities of the rose. Written by scholars and researchers from diverse backgrounds, the essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, and metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The essays present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, and historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.