Download or read book Ghetto Heaven written by Erick S. Gray and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni is young and sexy with an abusive gangster boyfriend. She struggles as a Brooklyn stripper. Eventually she befriends a rich pretty boy from Long Island. When he meets Toni, their lives change, as they teach each other how to live and grow, and school each other about the opposite worlds they live in and come from. Original.
Download or read book Heaven Got a Ghetto written by Renta and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghetto is a maze that so many have tried to escape, and in that same breath, so many have become lost within. Heaven has always been a destiny that so many seek to enter, yet, so many will never see. So, what happens when a street dude named GHETTO finds HEAVEN, a soft-hearted woman? Two very different people, a dangerous love affair, and a treachery that makes Satan smile. Could this turn out to be a crooked tale of deception, evil, mixed with good intentions? Is the deck already stacked against this forbidden union? Or perhaps Ghetto will draw a blank card that he can write his own destiny upon. Either way, his fate will be determined, good or bad. Conversely, can the right woman change the fate of a hood gangsta gone wrong? Walk with them through the rugged streets, the cemeteries, and the ups and downs of the game as we find out if HEAVEN GOT A GHETTO. And if she does, will the Devil claim their souls?
Download or read book Hit Singles written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist's name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.
Download or read book Treasure written by Cynthia Barnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to inspire others like myself. I have been appointed to deliver such a book by doing the works of the master, telling everything of himself, I haven't written a book or novel nor children books. From the Psalm (poems) I wrote novel of poetry of everyday life. The poems are telling a story within itself. Some people don't recognize a God given talent until a wakeup call comes. I was one of those people, I wrote many poems as a youngster and in my teens. I cast them away in my closet shelf or trash them. My baby sister Alisa always told me I had a God given gift, my baby sister Alisa reminded me of a little bitty person with a old soul young but had insight like she been here before. She had been getting my poems off the shelves and making her boyfriend cards with them. He was thinking she was writing them, she told me again, you got to keep writing them because he liked them. I was shocked, but nevertheless I said ok to my baby sister, calling herself in love. And my milestone started that day. Who would want to listen to what I had to say. The answer came later on, who would listen other than my baby sister. The same people that went down the same path and has experienced spiritual struggles, racism and was a victim of rape, gang bangers, prisoners, addicts, childhood dreama of becoming or a sense of want to belong. This book is inspired for all generations as well as the young, past, present and future. A reflection of fathers leaving homes leaving mothers taking care of homes as single parents, not to mention separated, that lead to divorce. In each of our lives we all are searching for our own path. Through our experience we live and learn, either we make mistakes ourselves or wise up or simply learn from the mistakes and trials of others as well as self. I’ve always felt that in the company of others, I find my heart to be captivated through another’s experience. Be it joy, pain, Hope or hardship. In my travels near or far in my hope of Mississippi or eve strange lands this defined me through and through. This when the journey began. We are one people, one love, one people with rainbow color of God. The color purple couldn’t have said it any better coming from Whoppi Goldberg. She said I might be ugly, I might even be black, I might even been misunderstood, but thank God am STILL HERE... We’re just ordinary people, why one kill because of the color of our skin. I never understand that. There is a time and purpose of our being. Know that there is a GOD... who hears and sees all GOD bless hope you enjoy....
Download or read book Storetry written by Allan Williams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of Storetry continues to prevail with its ghetto gospels and real life stories that will shock the psyche and help open the blind and ghetto souls in the world in a poetic and raunchy motion. Storetry has returned to rapture the ghettos in America to the next level. It is a down to earth and up close and personal hardcore book that will expand the awareness of the ignorant if read carefully. That which makes a person laugh can also make a person cry so never judge a book by its cover or title because miracles dont happen until you give something a try. So dont stop at this introduction because the real wisdom lies within the pages of this book and there is something different on each page so open up and take a close look.
Download or read book Ghetto Heaven written by Reggie Stacks and published by Zo Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GHETTO HEAVEN is the tale of Curtis Williams, a wealthy businessman who leads the life many men would envy...Or would they? Curtis' seemingly glamorous life is filled with so many twists and turns it would make any sane person go crazy. After escaping a lengthy federal prison sentence only to serve 26 months in a state prison, Curtis is back on the streets of Atlanta. In the 2 years since his release, Curtis has emerged as the head of a mini empire and a small fortune. With the newfound success of the newly opened Club Heaven and Pearly Gates, Atlanta's premier night spots, 45% ownership of Bawse Records, the #1 RAP label in the country. Curtis is a man that has it all at his fingertips. On one hand are his thriving business ventures and on the other hand is his personal life that's a cross between Heaven and Hell itself... You would think with the world in his palm he would be a very happy man, but missing from Curtis' life is that special person to share it all with. All that changes when Curtis meets an attractive but simple banker named Michelle. Up pops Sincere, a crazy ex from the past that will do anything to have Curtis exclusively to herself. Not surprisingly, so will Monica, Jazzy, and Vanessa. The clock is ticking as they race doing all they can to eliminate Michelle out of the equation. Will Curtis be consumed by his personal life or use his wealth to find Heaven on earth?
Download or read book Poetry Slam written by Gary Glazner and published by Manic D Press. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry documents the first ten years of this cultural phenomenon with details on slam history and rules, hosting your own slam, winning strategies, tips for memorization, crafting group pieces, and other informative essays, as well as 100 of the best slam-winning poems ever.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-08-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book The Book of Hit Singles written by Dave McAleer and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Based on the official Top 20 charts from Billboard in the US and NME/Music Week in the UK, this entertaining book shows at a glance the monthly international status of the hits. The fully updated and revised fourth edition lists the charts since they began in January 1954 all the way through December 2000. Each song is listed with artist name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the "other side of the pond." Special symbols indicate million-sellers, plus artists' first and most recent hits. All stars and songs are indexed separately, making it especially easy to pinpoint any Top 20 hit. Includes 200 photos, plus new pop trivia and star gossip!
Download or read book Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture written by Maria Stehle and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates tensions and transformations in today's Germany by examining literary, filmic, and musical treatments of the ghetto metaphor. Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has left the Nazi past and Cold War division behind and entered the new millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation. Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions between such views and the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism, provincialism, and fear of the perceived Other. Mainstream media foster such fears by describing violence in ghetto schools, failed integration, and the loss of society's core values. The city emerges as a key site not only of ethnic and political tension but of social change. Maria Stehle illuminates these tensions and transformations by following the metaphor of the ghetto in literary works from the 1990s by Feridun Zaimoglu, in German ghettocentric films from the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century, and in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods. In their representations of ghettos, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and performers redefine and challenge provincialism and nationalism and employ transcultural frameworks for their diverging political agendas. By contextualizing these discussions within social and political developments, this study illuminates the complexities that define Germany today for scholars and students across the disciplines of German, European, cultural, urban, and media studies. Maria Stehle is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Download or read book The Witch s Flight written by Kara Keeling and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social reality itself —Keeling describes how the cinematic structures racism, homophobia, and misogyny, and, in the process, denies viewers access to certain images and ways of knowing. She theorizes the black femme as a figure who, even when not explicitly represented within hegemonic cinematic formulations of raced and gendered subjectivities, nonetheless haunts those representations, threatening to disrupt them by making alternative social arrangements visible. Keeling draws on the thought of Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and others in addition to Deleuze. She pursues the elusive figure of the black femme through Haile Gerima’s film Sankofa, images of women in the Black Panther Party, Pam Grier’s roles in the blaxploitation films of the early 1970s, F. Gary Gray’s film Set It Off, and Kasi Lemmons’s Eve’s Bayou.
Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”
Download or read book The Cheating Curve written by Paula T. Renfroe and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two friends come clean about infidelity, what they learn will change everything. . . Every other Sunday, best friends Aminah Anderson and Langston "Lang" Rogers get manicures in trendy downtown Brooklyn and then have brunch. The two share everything with each other--almost. Lang's been keeping a secret from Aminah. She's cheating on her husband. When Aminah learns about the affair, the news hits too close to home. For Aminah's husband has also been unfaithful. She thought Lang understood the hurt and humiliation infidelity causes. She was wrong. Lang knows Aminah is disappointed in her, but they have different views. Lang only calls it cheating if she gets caught. Her spouse is devoted to her, yet she needs more. Though Aminah doesn't understand, her friend's admission leads her to finally confront her husband. Now their friendship, their marriages, and their self-respect will be put to the ultimate test. . . "Realistic and entertaining." --Booklist Paula T. Renfroe is the author of The Cheating Curve and the editor-in-chief of Juicy magazine. She has written for Time Out New York, The Source, Vibe and XXL magazines. The mother of two is diligently working on balancing life, workouts, and empty nest syndrome.
Download or read book Cracking Up written by Katelyn Hale Wood and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter in the Archives: Jackie "Moms" Mabley -- I Love You Bitches Back: Spect-Actors and Affective Freedom in I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! -- The Black Queer Citizenship of Wanda Sykes -- Contemporary Truth-Tellers: A New Cohort of Black Feminist Comics -- Conclusion.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-07-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Jj s Isolation written by Martin Patrick and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of Reaganomics, Thatcherism and terrorist threat, JJ's Isolation is played out in the highest ranks of London society in Mayfair and Whitehall, among Manhattan's corporate elite and the Secret Service. From 1978 to 1991, JJ works as an Agent for the Anti-Terrorist Union. As an intellectual and debonair Black entrepreneurial gay man, he has the power to seduce and to kill. His life changes when he falls in love with the wrong man. Over seven years he learns why his romantic spirit puts him in danger in America and Europe. Although he's unafraid of love ...he is paranoid about racism. When his best friend falls in love with him, they are exploited by friends and family as they struggle to survive death threats. This is a story of great love, passion, Anglo-American patriotism and free enterprise. Set in the exclusive world of glamour, political power, and the natural beauty of Arizona, the action involves spies, terrorists, perverts and tyrants. Across a landscape of racial diversity, mysticism and erotic enlightenment, three European, Hispanic, and African American Agents find love and marriage in a climate of terrorism and death.This is the love story you've been waiting for. - Human Rights Activist, London, UK Martin Patrick lives in London. He's a former university professor of film, drama and cultural studies.
