Author : Felisha D. McRae
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1300233346
This book is compiled of short sermons or messages the Lord used to bring deliverance, healing, and salvation to many as I traveled preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray that these sermons or messages will enlightened and bless you as well.
Author : Michael J. Blackwell
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1662427417
In this captivating short novel, A Small World, from the mind of author Michael Blackwell, the reader is submerged into the life of a young man named Jordan Small. Jordan is a nice young man who has a good future ahead of him if he can get past his circus of a family that doesn't seem to let up at any turn. From beginning to end, you wonder about the choices he will make as he deals with adversity befitting someone far older than him. It can't be too hard, right? It's easier said than done when you have a drug-addicted prostitute of a mother and an abusive father. This lethal combination lands him, his sister, Janay, and his two brothers, Jamal and Joseph, in the arms of their street-hustling Uncle Naim.Naim firmly standing on the belief of "do as I say and not as I do" pushes them to live a good life, while he leads a bad life all around them. As if an irresponsible uncle is not enough, Jordan must find a way to deal with the mental strain of a sister being abused and his brother Jamal becoming addicted to the streets, somewhat following in the footsteps of their uncle. The small light at the end of the tunnel seems to be Joseph, the oldest and his only good example. However, he is away at college playing basketball, however long that lasts. Jordan's character begins to unfold as he goes from nice and gullible to witty and gritty when trauma strikes his life and forces him to grow up too fast. Will Jordan lead a promising fulfilled life as his Uncle Naim ultimately desires, or will the pull and call of the streets and the ongoing stress of his life prove too much for him to handle? Either way it goes, the story of this young man's journey to early adulthood holds onto you from the start to finish as it promises to give you tear-drenching moments and heart-stealing ones as well. They say there is good in all of us. The only problem is that they also say the good die young.
Author : Christopher Alexander Hall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1456865382
Author : Lee Stokes
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1543484840
Ghetto Tears of the Gods is a classic novel that takes us on a journey through the impoverished slums of Little Rock, Arkansas, better known as the gangbanged capital of the South. The tale is about a young black gang leader who is released from the ADC after over a decade. Now his eyes are open to who he is. Dark temptation attempts to influence him to embrace his old gutta lifestyle. He commands a crew of young soldiers. His right-hand man was the notorious Fat Cat, whom he trusts with his life. But he will soon learn that with money and power comes jealousy and envy. While facing the adversities of the ghetto, he meets a beautiful woman named Charlotte, whom he thinks would change his life. The question is, Would it be for the better or for the worse? Charlotte is kidnapped, and Woo is left devastated and puzzled, trying to come up with the ransom money to save the woman of his dreams, a stranger who would turn his life into a living nightmare. So Woo and his goons jump into action, peace, and love.
Author : Janette Rucker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462842380
THE MILLIONAIRIST This story is about a young black woman who came from rags to riches left an infant to a strong struggling black family that had a lot of love but not much money. Diamond's birth mother Lillie a young girl with trials of her own living in a nightmare of an abusive mother who decided Lillie was the reason of her unhappy life made her life hell but no way was Lillie going to make her daughter live through her horror so she gave Diamond a chance to live by giving her up. Diamond went from the garbage can to the mansion but still trying to find genuine love from a man that could deal with a successful black woman without his hands always in her pocket but his mind on her heart.
Author : Kiraran
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Hailey May Collins is the school's cool girl; Smart, confident, mysterious, and intimidating. Everything that she does is admired by everybody, even by the way she walks or talks. Everybody worships her. But her cool-girl personality is nothing but a mask to hide her true self - a nervous and paranoid teen who's constantly worried about her social status. But even though she's having a hard time putting on her mask, she would gladly play along until after her senior year... That is until she discovered the secret of the Student Council students, whose real identities are The Pandorgriffs. The most popular girl and boy band of the year. Now, everywhere she goes, they follow her like a stalker. But what’s worse than having famous stalkers? It's when they find out about her secret as well.
Author : Lauren Michele Jackson
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807011800
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.
Author : Lauren Michele Jackson
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807011983
Exposes the new generation of whiteness thriving at the expense and borrowed ingenuity of black people—and explores how this intensifies racial inequality. American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture constantly achieves worldwide influence. Yet, when it comes to who is allowed to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are usually left behind as black aesthetics are converted into mainstream success—and white profit. Weaving together narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why cultural appropriation—something that’s become embedded in our daily lives—deserves serious attention. It is a blueprint for taking wealth and power, and ultimately exacerbates the economic, political, and social inequity that persists in America. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American culture as we know it—from shapeshifting celebrities and memes gone viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders. An audacious debut, White Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 essay of a similar name. It also introduces a bold new voice in Jackson. Piercing, curious, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White Negroes is a dispatch in awe of black creativity everywhere and an urgent call for our thoughtful consumption.
Author : Felisha Bradshaw
Publisher : URBAN GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0692564268
Perhaps it’s possible to meet someone who will turn your life around for the better just by two sets of eyes meeting, a coinciding double take, where each person’s feeling the other is “the one”. Women pray for this man of their dreams, a fairy tale and knight in shining armor. Some even take these prayers that are thrown up to God without specifications about what type of man they’re looking for, and then settle for the first man who comes their way; assuming it was God that sent him. They forget that the devil is active and working overtime as well and he’s one mean S.O.B destined to have his due. Ritza prayed for a knight in shining armor for so long she was blinded by the glare she assumed came from his armor never noticing it was the glare from his mephitic and elusive sword. The man that came to set her free was cut from a cloth that would not free her from her old life, but instead, bind her captive in a new. Blaze’s swag smoked screened his interior personality. His “lady’s man” aura was nothing compared to what lied beneath. Women were pawns in the games he played. The “Pussy for Sale” game was lucrative and he was all about paper baggin’. He had his hands in anything that would lead to a profit; loan sharking, numbers running, and drug trafficking. But what he loved the most was pimpin’. It wasn’t so much the money he made from his girls but, the logic of power he had over them mentally. He could turn the most sophisticated and refined woman into a bitch with a price tag on her body simply with a flash of his unblemished smile, deep dimples and promises of love and adventure. Hmmm, and the weak, well, they were like putty in his hands. So, women beware Blaze will send the life you know up in flames and have you forever burning in his pit, he calls the good life from just a mind fuck; subliminal orgasm. But In Hand Me Downs This was not the case! Ritza may not have known better, but she learned FAST! Be careful what you pray for and skittish of those who claim to be the answers your prayers. FOR CONTESTS AND GIVEAWAYS STAY CONNECTED WWW.IAMAUTHORFBRADSHAW.COM
Author : Felisha Ener
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0359500625
"I Am a Survivor: Stories of Tragedy & Triumph is a powerful book encompassing the stories of several empowered women who have survived many forms of abuse including emotional, physical and sexual abuse, domestic and family violence, bullying, and the depression, anxiety or suicide attempts as a result of the abuse. Each author has overcome these painful times to thrive and now share their stories with the world. As we gain healing from telling our truths, we hope for healing and strength to those who read them."
