Download or read book Dope Black Boy 2 Rich Black Man written by Christopher Freeman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there seeds of business greatness, even within the most underprivileged young black male, heavily engaged in a wild criminal lifestyle of selling drugs to achieve his version of the American dream? According to Christopher Freeman's life transformation...absolutely! This inspirational self-help book highlights Christopher's life and business evolution, from fueling a misguided hustler's ambition as a dope boy, to properly channeling his hustle and drive to achieve an empowered level of success as a fearless business man. Christopher's troubled childhood includes being sent to juvenile detention for a felony charge at 13, dropping out of school in the 9th grade, and selling crack at the age of 14. His meteoric rise to becoming a major dope boy making over $50,000 profit a month, was followed by 2 tormenting bids in federal prison. However, while incarcerated, Christopher embraced a powerful regimen for reprogramming his mind. He discovered how to use the exact same skills that made him prominent as a hustler in the streets, to build one of the fastest growing multi-million dollar virgin hair businesses in the nation - Beautiful Hair 4 U. In Dope Black Boy 2 Rich Black Man, Marcellus Womack unites with Christopher to collaboratively provide a mentor/big-brother source of guidance and rejuvenating enlightenment for young black males, taking a very real and credible look at how an overly glamorized "Thug Life" truly plays out in "Real Life." Dope Black Boy 2 Rich Black Man also contains invaluable perspectives and solution bases for uplifting black culture, in addition to pivotal keys to business success and overall greatness, applicable to all.

Download or read book Holding A Dope Boy Down 2 written by CoCo Shawnde and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second installment, Blocc is hit with the news of his sister being brought back to his life. With the heavy feud between Pops and his crew, more secrets and murders await. He has to shuffle through the hand that is given and take on the losses at the same time. When he loses one, he begins to gain another. Seeming as if he can never catch a break, Blocc gets the deal of a lifetime. What was supposed to be a welcoming reunion turned into chaos. Taking on the deal seems better than rotting away in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, but will Blocc see it that way? Being a proposed member of the Black Family Mob, he has to face sitting with the plug, but it was nothing how he imagined when Dime is on another man's arm. Drama, lies, and betrayal are enough to call it quits in this fast life, but when you have hood dreams, you’ll take on just about anything to get your piece of the pie.

Download or read book Mistaken Identity Volume 2 written by Kingpen Capone and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every city, small and big, there is a very suave, laid back, money getting, quiet brother. He has one goal, one ambition, and one true quest. To get paid! To do it right and have something so that the Game is truly the greatest asset. This is the story of one such unique game player. Christopher Patience. Christopher to those who love and respect him. Mr. Patience to those who hate, yet wished the Game God would've blessed them in such away. Yes, it's the ones that are close to us that's truly the ones to unmask. This is the story of many such gifted money makers throughout America's Dope Trade. Christopher Patience was born and chosen by the game for the game because of a life of nothing or no one. Yet he is a history maker, a businessman, and a respected citizen in what society calls a privilege that very few blacks have the acquaintance of knowing. Especially for a young black man with a prison number. This is the story of pride, lies, deception, and hard grind all for the sake of success or failure. This is some Cleveland shit on its highest level. This is The Dope Boy.

Download or read book Black Boy written by Richard Wright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."

Download or read book The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick 2 written by Shontaiye Moore and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole Hart Signature's new author, Shontaiye Moore debuts the sequel to, The Rise Of A Dope Boy Chick 2. This gripping, African American Urban Romance drama will leave you speechless...Asia's back, but this time, she has a whole new set of troubles. She is now faced with the harsh reality that she needs to make a choice between the two men that she loves. Accustomed to someone else solving her problems; she soon learns that this time, that won't suffice, and no one will guide her. As she struggles to be a mother, run her business, and keep her sanity; more problems are added to her plate. Muff is back ... and this time, it's with a vengeance.With Mitch's appeal under way, he's now home and ready to dive back into the drug world. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan. The streets aren't the same anymore and neither are his connections. He soon finds the pressure mounting, as his lawyer fees pile up; right along with the headaches at home. Asia has changed, and he's not sure whether it's for the good or the bad.Thrust in the center of a love triangle, Josiah soon learns that all good things must come to an end, and that proves accurate in all aspects of his life. Mitch returning to the scene disrupts his love life; while law enforcement disturbs his business. A new threat now lingers in the air; however, the problem is Josiah doesn't even know it's there. What he thinks is his biggest problem, is actually, far from it.This explosive, fast-paced, second installment will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Despite the losses and setbacks, nothing can stop The Rise Of A Dope Boy's Chick 2!

Download or read book Dope Boy written by Sa'id Salaam and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Black Ink Publications presents.

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature Volume 2 written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Download or read book The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents written by Kirkland C. Vaughans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on personal insights and research-based knowledge, this important work facilitates understanding of the psychological struggles of young African American males and offers ameliorative strategies. Despite examples set by successful black men in all walks of life, the truth remains that a disproportionate number of black boys and young men underperform at school, suffer from PTSD, and, too often, find themselves on a pathway to jail. The two-volume The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents marks the first attempt to catalog the many psychological influences that can stack the deck against black male children—and to suggest interventions. Bringing together an expansive collection of new and classic research from a wide variety of disciplines, this set sheds light on the complex circumstances faced by young black men in the United States. Contributions by authors Kirkland Vaughans and Warren Spielberg contain insights from the groundbreaking "Brotherman" study, conducted over a ten-year period to report on the lives and psychological challenges of over a hundred African American boys and their families. Among the myriad issues studied in this set are the often-negative expectations of society, the influence of gangs, and the impact of racism and poverty. Of equal importance, the work explores culturally specific ways to engage families, youths, communities, and policymakers in the development of healthy, safe, educated boys who will become whole and successful adults.

Download or read book The Cartel Deluxe Edition Part 2 written by Ashley and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cartel series by street lit superstars Ashley & JaQuavis has been a consistent New York Times bestseller, full of their trademark fast-paced drama, deceit, and plot twists that leave readers shocked. Now fans can relive the story of the Diamond family in this second deluxe edition, containing books four and five. The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing tall, and a new era has begun. After a failed attempt on her life, Breeze has moved into the queen's position by Zyir's side. Zyir has taken over the empire and locked down Miami's streets. He has the world in his palms, but there is always new blood ready to overthrow the throne. Young Carter has retired and moved away from the madness--that is, until he gets an unexpected visitor at his home. This person shakes up the whole family, causing chaos that threatens to bring down the Cartel for good. When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of The Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own. With the federal government on their heels and the family on the brink of destruction, a female dynasty is born. After the government's case is thwarted, the ladies plan to take the family legit. They head west to establish a new endeavor, but with new territory comes new problems. The Carter family name doesn't ring as loud as it did in Miami. It's a new set of gangsters, a new set of rules, as the Cartel finds problems with an Arabic millionaire. Even as the new Cartel struggles to go legit, trouble always finds a way into the family's circle. Larceny, deceit, and murder are all in the cards.

Download or read book Message to the Blackman in America written by Elijah Muhammad and published by Elijah Muhammad Books.com. This book was released on 1973-11-07 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to countless mainstream news organs, Elijah Muhammad, by far, was the most powerful black man in America. Known more for the students he produced, like Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and Muhammad Ali, this controversial man exposed the black man as well as the world to a teaching, till now, was only used behind closed doors of high degree Masons and Shriners. An easy and smart read. The book approaches the question of what and who is God. It compares the concept held by religions to nature and mathematics. It also explores the origin of the original man, mankind, devil, heaven and hell. Its title, Message To The Blackman, is directed to the American Blacks specifically, but addresses blacks universally as well.

Download or read book Run It written by Marcellus Womack and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Master P, Elon Musk, Oprah, Bumpy Johnson and the highest ranking Harvard Economics Professor had ever collectively captured their greatest secret success formulas to business - and shared it with 2 black inner city go-getters, to present in one ultimate entrepreneurship book ...it would be "RUN IT!" Every 60 seconds someone becomes a millionaire. Serial entrepreneur Christopher Freeman experienced this moment, when he generated his first $1MM with his flagship enterprise Beautiful Hair 4 U. In the process, Christopher made a powerful lifetime connection and brotherhood with brand strategist Marcellus Womack. Their navy seal approach and overwhelming disruption at scale led to Beautiful Hair 4 U doubling its million-dollar revenue in one year, and further expanding from 3 store locations to 14. Christopher leveraged this success to rapidly pivot into real estate and launch his next empire, Beautiful Homes 4 U. RUN IT is the breakthrough follow up to Christopher and Marcellus' instant classic "Dope Black Boy 2 Rich Black Man." RUN IT is the undisputed "Hood Street to Wall Street" entrepreneurial holy grail for building a MILLION-dollar enterprise.

Download or read book Magic City written by Trick Daddy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.” Trick Daddy was born a thug—just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty and sparkling wealth. Where grinding poverty, deadly crime, and devastating racial tension taught kids to live by the ’hood rules. Remarkably, Trick came from nothing and made it big just when his chances had run out. Magic City is the extraordinary tale of a boy whose father was a pimp, who learned to hustle to survive, and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. It’s the untold truth behind the cult movie Scarface, of the drug money that transformed the city into a shining mecca for the rich and famous while turf wars between smalltime pushers claimed countless lives. It’s also the incredible story of how that potent mixture of extremes—the electric pulse and glittering abundance of South Beach and the crime, corruption, and despair in its shadows—gave rise to the most dominant sound in hip-hop today. Magic City is an ode to Miami, a riveting tale of a paradise lost and a native son determined to infuse it with new life.

Download or read book The Harlem Plug written by Harlem Holiday and published by Harlem Westside Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace." MALCOLM X In Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem. In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). After negotiating a deal with the Medellín Cartel, Fritz becomes New York's Cocaine Consignment King. The lucrative deal unlocks a lavish lifestyle with more money than Fritz's family and Harlem could've imagined. Now, distributing kilos of cocaine on a kingpin level to many well-known Harlem heavyweights, Fritz employs hundreds throughout the five boroughs of New York City and neighboring states. Fritz further extends his generosity in ways few from the community had ever seen. Fritz reigns supreme for over a decade in the drug game, making millions under the radar of the NYPD and he never got busted. Some look at Fritz as the Keyser Soze of the 80s. The most enigmatic drug dealer of that time. ​ HARLEM HOLIDAY brings her readers the inside scoop after almost three decades of silence, speculation, and secrecy. This biography is the in-depth story of Fritz never before told; the tale of how a lowly street hustler rises to orchestrate a one-man syndicate. It's an account of events, as told by Fritz's family and closest friends, and details gathered from newspaper clippings, magazine articles, court transcripts, and social media. Fritz's truth, joy, and despair are fully disclosed, while circumstances surrounding his death still remain a mystery.

Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.

Download or read book Abuse Sex and Drugs Our Lives as Teenagers on the Streets of America Poetry Only written by Taylor and published by Kjinata Communications LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the poems taken from the book: Abuse, Sex and Drugs: The Lives of Teenagers on the Streets of America and is for readers that prefer the poems over the stories. It also contains some poems that were left out of the original submission

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Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.