Download or read book How Much Longer written by Forever , Forever and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jaeda, a 15 year old teenager who just can't seem to catch a break. Between her ex-boyfiend Nequan and her future, she's continually going through struggles. With only her love for Nequan, her fear of rejection and hope for her future, she's stuck. Through pregnancy, rape, abuse and fights, she's a winner, not only in love, but in life.

Download or read book Secrets Shots Fired written by Damajae Davis and published by Damajae Davis. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the event that transpired at Williams High, things aren't looking so good. What will they do with the laptop that they found? What's on it? So, many questions and so little answers. Can They enjoy Max's party and be teenagers Will the parents enjoy their night out away from their kids? Something bound to happen, Right?

Download or read book THAT I M NOT I LL NEVER BE written by Appahummie the Author and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Appahummie Dotts enters the Cook County Jail, his guilt or innocence is irrelevant to staying alive amid all the violence and chaos headed his way. As an eighteen-year-old, he can hardly believe that he’s in the belly of the beast with grown seasoned criminals- most of them without anything to lose. He weighs 130 pounds soaking wet, but he knows how to protect himself and is smart enough to mind his business. In this dramatized account, the author looks back on how he found himself in the Cook County Jail among killers, robbers, rapists, and drug dealers from all walks of life. He also reveals what it’s like to be in the Cook County Jail fighting for your life. Moreover, he shares the frustration of being in the Cook County Jail, recalling how some days he asked the Lord for strength and if the days would ever change. Each one seemed more miserable than the next, making it that much harder to keep going on.

Download or read book It s Elementary written by Elise Bryant and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools, from NAACP Image Award nominee Elise Bryant. Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee. As one of the few Black parents at this California elementary school, Mavis tries to convince herself this is an opportunity for real change. But things go off the rails at the very first meeting, when the new principal's plans leave Trisha absolutely furious. Later that night, when Mavis spies Trisha in yellow rubber gloves and booties, lugging cleaning supplies and giant black trash bags to her waiting minivan, it’s only natural that her mind jumps to somewhere it surely wouldn’t in the light of day. Except Principal Smith fails to show up for work the next morning, and has been MIA since the meeting. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Mavis, along with the school psychologist with the great forearms (look, it’s worth noting), launches an investigation that will challenge her views on parenting, friendship, and elementary school politics. Brilliantly written, It's Elementary is a quick-witted, escapist romp that perfectly captures just how far parents will go to give their kids the very best, all wrapped in a mystery that will leave you guessing to the very end.

Download or read book A Day Late and a Dollar Short written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Without question, this is McMillan’s best. A glorious novel....A moving tapestry of familial love and redemption.”—The Washington Post With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America—and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.

Download or read book Play Your Position written by Rayven Skyy and published by Rayven Skyy. This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Krete walked through the gates of Deerfield Correctional Facility a free man, after spending four years in prison equipped with a master plan. Within six months of his release he was gainfully employed and financially stable. He poured concrete by day and chased his passion for music at night with the goal of owning his own entertainment company. Unfortunately, for Krete bad habits die slowly—especially if the price was right. Greed gives way to reason without regards to the impact it would have on the lives of the people in his tightknit circle. Amidst the growing chaos, Krete finds himself blessed and cursed by the love of two women, which could later prove dangerous for all involved. Many lies were told in an effort to balance the demands of multiple relationships as both worlds begin to collide. They both played pivotal roles in his life—one has his heart and the other one has his back. In addition, an unexpected windfall opens up a drug pipeline stretching from Georgia to VA, which attracts deadly consequences and the life he once envisioned evolves into a dream deferred.

Download or read book Bet On Yourself written by Antoine Bethea and published by Scribl. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Antoine Bethea is a husband, father, businessman and philanthropist who has played 14 seasons in the National Football League. During that time, he has also distinguished himself as one of the NFL’s top safeties and a role model on and off the field.Written with award-winning sportswriter Terez Paylor, “Bet On Yourself” is a memoir that gives readers an inside look at the methods that Bethea — who did not have a single Division 1 or Division 2 scholarship offer as a high school senior — used to turn himself into an NFL draft pick and eventual star.

Download or read book Hustler s Greed written by Martin L. Stockon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hustler's Greed is book one of the Murdaland Trilogy. An urban novel inspired by truth. Consisting of an accumulation of life experiences whom to many are a daily reality. From Capital Hill to the Hood in urban sectors of society all are driven towards, "THE AMERICAN DREAM!" and all are tempted by "GREED!" and a longing to succeed. "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!" In a world driven by power,sex,money,and material gain; the rich get richer and the poor get poorer receiving leftovers that pacify and distort their reality of truth. To many youth in urban America hustling seems to be the only means to rise up out of poverty. However the repercussions of this chosen path almost always lead to increased numbers of youth and adults alike being the victim of homicide, incarceration, insanity, and or extremely wealthy!!!! Like Kilo and Rockman, two intelligent urban youth full of ambition who rise to the epitome of the drug game. Only to find themselves facing an untimely demise. Self made street millionaires recruiting a generation of young hustlers living a life of money, murder, deception, and greed. Hustler's Greed. Book two of the Murdaland Trilogy "Street Certified" coming soon......

Download or read book In My Moonlit Mornings written by Elijah J Graham and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the prison industrial complex existed without the institutional middleman? What if indebtedness was a crime? What if all crimes could result in enslavement? In My Moonlit Mornings is a dynamic piece of realistic fiction, written in a dystopian alternate America that has permanently legalized involuntary servitude.John Harrison, president of the newly named United Confederacy of America, has revised the constitution to permit slavery in a profitable new form referred to as a Blacktract: the product of an authoritarian hierarchy system installed in the forefront of America's Bill of Rights. Through his influential manifesto, The Superior Stratagem, John Harrison and his son have persuaded the American people with alternative facts and blunt charisma to welcome involuntary servitude by abolishing prisons and effectively subjugating criminals and the impoverished. The two most important laws in the Harrisonian revised Constitution, written entirely by President John Harrison himself, proceed as follows:Indebtedness, lasting a period of six months or more, is a crime.All crimes are punishable by Blacktract at the discretion of the victim and approval of the United Confederacy of America.Blacktracts are not involuntary labor or forced upon anyone, until they sign the solid line at the bottom. Once the paper is wetted, all of the signers' desires dissipate to be replaced by their proprietor's desires, all fruits of their labor are inherited by the proprietor, and all of their basic human needs must be filled by that same master. Though, and I must add this, for one to not sign a Blacktract is death.These laws, coupled with preexisting tendencies for poor people, people of color, immigrants, and women to fall into debt or commit a crime create a tense world of profitable subjugation that is similar to our own world if it were under a magnifying glass.Malik White, a stubborn runaway Blacktractee, finally escapes his content life as a mechanic under an abusive master in a Mississippi auto shop and travels to New York City after hearing about its unique opposition to the Confederate American government. There, he finds Keri Carter, the compassionate leader of the Railroad to Equal Life, or REL: the last enemy to the United Confederacy, domestic or international. Keri then introduces Malik to her overly violent, super-assassin sister, Nina, who has a big surprise of her own waiting at home for Keri.

Download or read book The Rise of the Masses written by Benjamin Abrams and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immense mobilization of citizens around a cause. In The Rise of the Masses, sociologist Benjamin Abrams addresses why and how people spontaneously protest, riot, and revolt en masse. While most uprisings of such a scale require tremendous resources and organizing, this book focuses on cases where people with no connection to organized movements take to the streets, largely of their own accord. Looking to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Uprising, as well as the historical case of the French Revolution, Abrams lays out a theory of how and why massive mobilizations arise without the large-scale planning that usually goes into staging protests. ? Analyzing a breadth of historical and regional cases that provide insight into mass collective behavior, Abrams draws on first-person interviews and archival sources to argue that people organically mobilize when a movement speaks to their pre-existing dispositions and when structural and social conditions make it easier to get involved—what Abrams terms affinity-convergence theory. Shedding a light on the drivers behind large spontaneous protests, The Rise of the Masses offers a significant theory that could help predict movements to come.

Download or read book Section 8 written by K'wan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since she was a little girl, Tionna's on and off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means necessary. Tionna's heart is as cold as a December chill, but she holds a warm place in it for Duhan, the father of her two sons, and her on-again-off-again boyfriend since they were teenagers. Duhan becomes her knight in shining armor until the government turns their dream into a nightmare. With Duhan behind bars and everything she loves seized she finds herself starting over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never come back to. With two kids, a man in prison and no back up plan, Tionna is once again living by her wits in order to maintain the lifestyle she'd become so accustomed to. Back in the thick of things with her best friends Gucci, Boots and Tracy, she finds herself rediscovering her old life and suddenly begins to wonder if she's really cut out to be a prisoner's wife.

Download or read book Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance written by DeRon S. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories? Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions to illuminate the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories. Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture. It encompasses dramatic analysis of Lynn Nottage's Sweat, Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, and acts of resistance during the Black Lives Matter summer 2020 highway protests. A series of conversations with artists and scholars are woven throughout the book's three sections, including with playwrights Christina Anderson and Donja R. Love, and Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

Download or read book Foul Kisses written by Son of Winter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In foul kisses you will go on a fast paced journey through the concrete jungle with Lola and her B.G.B. (Bitches got bands) crew. To manuever in the zoo of the concrete jungle Lola and her B.G.B. will need cunningness, strategy, strength and most of all luck. The trials and tribulations that the streets offer females in what’s deemed a mans game will have them beg to differ as they soon learn that some circumstances will change anyone forever leaving you with the remnant of a foul kiss.

Download or read book Three Ring Circus written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2020 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1996 through 2004, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal combined-- and collided-- to help bring the Lakers three straight championships and restore the franchise as a powerhouse. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. The eight years of infighting and hostility were by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson. Pearlman shows how the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the most enduring, and ever-evolving, teams in NBA history. -- adapted from jacket

Download or read book SPIN written by and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.

Download or read book MANIA written by B.S. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When JJ joins the military, he hopes that his commitment will help him gain a better perspective. Before he knows it he deploys to the Middle East as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Unfortunately, life in a conflict zone makes no sense to him. Given his circumstances, JJ does not concern himself with the occupational hazards or army standards. He's only fascinated with the absurd language that bombards him daily. As he attempts to understand the chaotic world around him, JJ takes a shot at deciphering the bureaucratic dialogue that disguises the truth. As JJ journeys from a confused young man to one who becomes enlightened, he must battle a true enemy that leads him to discover that nothing is ever guaranteed when it comes to war. In this modern military tale, an American soldier encounters pandemonium over ambiguous bureaucratic dialogue amid the chaos of the Iraq War.

Download or read book Dancing on the Rings of Saturn written by Richard Ball and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the "dog days" of the summer of 1963 follow Frankie,D.D. Weed,Bobo and King through their coming of age experience as black teenagers growing up in the rural south in the early to mid 1960's. Written in the spirit of The Wonder Years and Stand by Me get an humorous and insightful look at life through their eyes.