Download or read book Steppin Out with Attitude written by Anita Richmond Bunkley and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular novelist and motivational speaker shows women, especially African-American women, how to put themselves in the spotlight--whether they're selling a talent, a service, a product, or a dream.

Download or read book Steppin Out written by Lewis A. Erenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-11-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and consumption, dissolving conventional barriers between classes, races, the sexes—even between life and art. A fabulous era of chorus girls, jazz players, lobster palaces, and hip flasks—the age of Sophie Tucker, Irene and Vernon Castle, and Gilda Gray—tangos through the pages of this ground-breaking, as well as entertaining, cultural history.

Download or read book 100 Most Popular African American Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists of their works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide stresses African American writers of popular and genre literature-from Rochelle Alers and Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, and Omar Tyree, with a few classic literary giants also included. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Where can you find information about popular, contemporary African American authors? Web sites can be difficult to locate and unreliable, particularly for some of the newer authors, and their contents are inconsistent and often inaccurate. Although there are a number of reference works on African American writers, the emphasis tends to be on historical and literary authors. Here's a single volume containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with lists of their works. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide covers African American writers of popular and genre literature—from Rochelle Alers, Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, Omar Tyree, and Zane. A few classic literary giants who are popular with today's readers are also included—e.g., Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright. Readers who want to know more about their favorite African American authors or find other books written by those authors, students researching AA authors for reports and papers, and educators seeking background information for classes in African American literature will find this guide invaluable. (High school and up.)

Download or read book Steppin out of Hell with High Heels On written by Samantha T Joyner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Johnson has lived in hell and back again. She realizes that living in Hell becomes a continuous life style for her. She must love it because she keeps dating online meeting the same types of men with the same types of problems. Simone is ready to live a new life style with a different kind of love. She now has to pay the price for all her past mistakes. She does not realize that the best man for her has been sitting in front of her all along. Can she stop looking for online love to see whats right in front of her or will she continue paying the price to live in Hell? Simone has to change her mindset and stop looking for Mr. Right Now in order for Mr. Right to come along. Gordon Wilson is a educated man and one of the most gorgeous available men in the town of Rochester New York. Gordon is a church going man, professional man and a successful business man. He has a past like most of us and he allows his mother to have a part in it all. He has to come to terms with living in hell continuously or stepping out to conquer all things in his life. His main problem is that he uses his church image to attract women. Gordon is now on the hunt for a wife but he has some demons he has to conquer before moving forth into yet another relationship. Sinclair Rogers was totally out of control in her life. She starts out a professional dancer and ends up a stripper. She wants out of the game but does not know how to let go the glamor and the money. She wants a normal life, children and a man who can truly love her. Will she find a life of love in the strip club or will she have to turn her life over to a higher power to get control of all the HELL thats showing up in her life. You shouldnt find someone else until you find yourself. - Will Koz

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book A Temple Born written by Cheryl Farris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Farris is a new voice on the landscape of American poets. Creating from a female, African American, and simply human scope; her poetic voice is diverse."What a total joy to read, re-read, absorb and feel the poetry of A TEMPLE BORN. I've been reading Cheryl Farris since her college days…it ever more becomes an emerging truth." —Nikki Giovanni Poet Author"There are poets who ignore the courtesy of universality and direct their words to the particulars of the human condition. There are poems that rebel against the limitations of language and speak their own truths, like jazz refusing to be defined or contained. These are the poems of Cheryl Farris." —Thomas Meloncon Playwright/Poet

Download or read book Free Within Ourselves written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bird by Bird for the African-American market--A top-notch writer's guide filled with practical guidance, essays, and journal exercises for the African-American writer including advice from E.Lynn Harris, Charles Johnson, and Yolanda Joe. In her introduction, Jewell Parker Rhodes writes: "Never (in four years of college or five years of graduate school) was I assigned an exercise or given a story example that included a person of color...While the educational system and the publishing world have become progressively more welcoming of African-American authors, there is still little attention to educating, supporting, and sustaining the writing process of African-American authors. Free Within Ourselves is a solid first step--it is the book I wished I had when I started out as a writer. It is meant to be a song of encouragement for African-American artisits and visionaries. Free Within Ourselves is a step-by-step introduction to fictional technique, exploring story ideas, and charting one's progress, as well as a resource guide for publishing fiction." For the legions of people who have a novel stuck in their word processors, help is finally on the way! Free Within Ourselves is an excellent guide to all the elements necessary to crafting fiction: character development, point of view, plot, atmosphere, dialogue, diction, sentence variety, and revision. Writing techniques are taught using exercises, journaling, story examples, and analyses of famous writing fragments, as well as several complete stories (including those of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edwidge Dandicat, among others). The book is further enhanced by inspirational advice from successful contemporary black writers (such as Bebe Moore Campbell, Rita Dove, Henry Louis Gates, John Edgar Wideman, and others), a bibliography, and a guide to workshops, journals, magazines, contests, and fellowships supportive of black arts.

Download or read book The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.

Download or read book Work It written by Kimberley Wilson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work It! The Black Woman's Guide to Success At Work is the no nonsense, non-sugar coated guide to what every Black woman really needs to know about the business world.

Download or read book Stepping Out with the Sacred written by Val Webb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Val Webb describes in this book how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through rituals, art, sacred places, language and song. Drawing on personal and observed experience of travel and meetings with strangers, Webb uses her anecdotes to supplement her analysis of centuries of theology, literature and travel writing. The sum effect is to remind us that we need as many stories as possible in order to engage the Sacred-beyond-description, even if only to remind us of the distance still to go and the limitless (and sometimes unsuccessful) journey. The result is an interwoven, vivid, and theologically reflective reading experience.

Download or read book God Promises Me Abundant Life written by Claudia Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching for your blessing and pulling them down. And I will give into thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Are you speaking the word out of your mouth, but from your heart? You don't believe what you are saying. Look at this in the natural. I have a peach tree in August. The peach is ripped on the tree. Now (get this), where are peaches? They are not on the ground. They are hanging on the peach tree ready to be pulled off or down. You need a ladder to pull the peach down and if you want them bad enough, you will reach up and get your peach. Now take that same determination and reach for your blessing. Reach God's heart. A son knows how to reach his dad. To all the young men and women who have a college education but you're still having problems, and you think that because your father or mother with a second grade education, you feel they are not educated enough to talk to, that they don't understand. You have not read the book of Proverbs 6:20-21 - My son (and daughter), keep your father's command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. The wisdom that comes from your mother and father, the biggest book cannot retain it. Life experiences are priceless. So don't look down your nose on mom and dad because you have a college degree. When have you said thank you? You call everyone except mom and dad.

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Download or read book 101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves written by Jamie Walker and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2002 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart and Soul magazine 101 Ways is like talking to your sister when she´s got all the right answers. Black Issues Book Review An ambitious...guide to personal growth and fulfillment through the practice of loving one´s self. Walker touches upon topics as diverse as respecting your elders and loving your hair, devoting each chapter to a single principle. Walker often seems to be thinking out loud, as if she´s writing a journal entry or letter to a close friend...The very completion of this 101-chapter volume is no small feat and should serve as an inspiration to aspiring writers. Midwest Book Review An impressively practical self-help guide written especially to aid black women to get in touch with their spiritual side, experience a zest for life, and achieve a personal liberation. Walker articulately and persuasively takes the position that true healing does not come overnight, but rather it gradually evolves over time, once we learn not to look outward for validation and approval, and only when we embrace the love of God. 101 Ways Black Women Can Learn To Love Themselves is definitely recommended as being an unusually powerful, emotionally charged, and uplifting personal improvement and self-help guide. Kanika A. Wade, The Rawsistaz Book Reviewers As a black woman on her own personal journey, I found this book to be powerful, very emotional, and moving to read. I felt that the author at times was speaking directly to me, providing the encouragement and strength that I need as I move forward into new horizons. Jamie Walker offers a book that with an open heart, many can and will find healing. As a young black woman, I am thankful that Ms. Walker heeded the call and wrote a book that all black women, regardless of age should read. Venus Noble Jamie Walker is insightful and wise way beyond her years. A page turner would not describe the inability to put this book down! There is wit and humor in every single passage! No Black woman´s bookshelf should be without this manual of self worth and respect. Though apparently geared toward Black women, it is useful for any woman who will open her mind to learning about herself and growing. Social Worker/Activist; Oakland, California Joy Parham, Assistant to the Librarian; UC Merced I believe this is a necessary and encouraging message Jamie is sending out to Black women, especially our young Black women. Most of us didn´t tap into our inner selves until we had experienced numerous trials and tribulations in life. We didn´t see the value in the valley. This is definitely a book I will add to my collection. Esther Cooper Jackson, co-founder of Freedomways magazine An excellent resource! Columbus Metropolitan Main Library (representing ten branches) A Must Read! BOOK SUMMARY Self-love is the only kind of love that can every truly heal and rescue us, causing us to be more open in all of our other relationships, activities, and endeavors. 101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves this book is about self-actualization, the power of sisterhood, the healing power of sharing our own stories, and the beauty o

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Download or read book Steppin Out with an Attitude written by Anita Richmond Bunkley and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivational speaker Anita Bunkley shows women, especially African Amer. women, how to put their talent, service, dream, or product in the spotlight. She addresses those readers who have a tendency to downplay their skills & to undersell themselves. Through short exercises & practical tips, she provides a step-by-step program that offers both practical advice & emotional support. Quotes, inspirational passages, stories about the author's life experiences, & testimonials from prominent women will also help you pave the way to success. Zeroes in on the 3 Ds: desire, discipline, & drive. Self-knowledge is the key to maximizing potential, & she helps you crystallize your goals & provide a solid understanding of what is fueling your quest.