Download or read book Why Didn t We Love written by Roderick Von King and published by Roderick Von King. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why didn't we love? Why did we try to hide what was deep inside?" Bobby Vail thought as he pondered his failed relationship with the love of his life. If you have ever truly loved someone who did not return his/her love to you, then you can understand the gut-wrenching pain and mental anguish it can cause, as well as the insatiable need to find answers to such tormenting questions. This book takes you on a roller coaster of love that journeys through college life, the professional work place, the ten-year high school reunion, marriage, divorce, death, church, skiing vacations, and romantic cruises. You will experience joy and pain and a myriad of other emotions dealt by true-life experiences. As a 1972 high school All-American scholar athlete, Bobby Vail did not pursue his athletic or musical dreams, but attended a small private university in Los Angeles to be near his cousin, Ronnie Cole, one of the leading black actors in Hollywood. There he meets the beautiful Monica Devoreaux, from New Orleans, Louisiana, and falls head over heels in love with her. She does not immediately return his love, charting the course for a chase that spanned two decades, in which bad timing, personal circumstances, and other obstacles keeps them apart. Monica's desire for independence and the good life gets her caught up with a rich man 16 years her senior, and she gets trapped in the relationship. The genuine friendship that Bobby and Monica developed is the element that keeps them involved in each other's life. They explore issues of politics, race, and religion, which generate some strong differences of opinion. Bobby's job as a project engineer for a national defense company sets the stage for intrigue. He gets thrown in the middle of a cover up and has to decide whether or not to stand alone against the white corporate establishment. Bobby, a true romantic who loves love, unmasks certain male stereotypes and brings a fresh, honest depiction of the male psyche with regard to male-female relationships. He displays his emotions, his hardness, his vulnerabilities, his passions, his pains, and his shortcomings, all in an attempt to remain down to earth in keeping with his father's teachings. Bobby reaches the pinnacle of success, which is attributed to a strong two-parent family, a powerful father figure, and a moral upbringing. Bobby Vail learned that life is precious and you have to take it seriously. He reflects on whether the course of his life was dictated by random events and circumstances, fate, or simply good and bad choices.
Download or read book The Legacy Tree written by Herman Jasper and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story takes a look at the effect of racial injustice on the mind of a Black seventeen-year-old, above-average high school graduate in Philadelphia who finds himself caught between two worlds. Disillusioned by what he sees as unjustified murders of African American men and women by people sworn to protect and serve, Kenny makes the decision to explore the fast money option of drug dealing. He barely escapes a police sting operation, and as a result, is sent to spend the summer with family members who live on a farm in Georgia. Kenny meets some like-minded young people in Georgia which presents the opportunity to continue his pursuit of fast money while his family endeavors to turn him away from the streets and toward higher education. Will they be able to overcome his righteous indignation and cynicism in time to save him from prison or worse?
Download or read book Animating Black and Brown Liberation written by Michael Datcher and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation. Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool—ankhing—enables Michael Datcher to examine the ways African American and Latinx literatures respond to and ultimately work to resist hegemonic forces of neoliberalism and state-sponsored oppression. Weaving together close readings and politically informed philosophical reflection, Datcher considers the work of writer-activists Toni Cade Bambara, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, June Jordan, Salvador Plascencia, and Ishmael Reed, in light of theoretical interventions by Jane Bennett, Mel Y. Chen, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, and Erica R. Edwards. How, he asks, can cultural production positively influence Black and Brown material conditions and mobilize collective action “off the page”? How can art-based counterpublics provide a foundation for Black and Brown community organizing? What emerges from Datcher’s innovative analysis is a frank assessment of the links between embodied experiences of racialization, as well as a distinctive vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature as a repository of emancipatory strategies with real-world applications. “In Animating Black and Brown Liberation, Michael Datcher posits a bold new way of approaching a variety of important texts, including those authored by Toni Cade Bambara, Ishmael Reed, Salvador Plascencia, Gloria Anzaldúa, and June Jordan, among others. Drawing on ideas by theorists such as Foucault, Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Alexander Weheliye, Datcher offers a fresh and original way of valuing these works. This volume is a thought-provoking addition to the world of literary criticism.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University “This book offers a much-needed perspective on what is generally regarded in the field of American literary studies as ‘Black and Brown’ comparative ethnic literature. Few projects have endeavored to bridge African American and Latinx literatures, and Animating Black and Brown Liberation does so with a clarity and brilliance not seen in a long time.” — Ellie D. Hernández, author of Postnationalism in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
Download or read book Sid Brooks Tales from the San Diego Chargers Locker Room written by Sid Brooks and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African-American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks' job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated -- and outrageous -- than one would believe.Sid Brooks' Tales from the Chargers Locker Room takes the reader aboard the elevator to B2, the basement of Qualcomm Stadium, where the Chargers locker room is housed. In that basement, the equipment department and trainers, affectionately known as "dungeon rats," ran the Chargers locker room. There, Sid Brooks became caretaker for all who crossed its threshold. The locker room would be damp, dark, and quiet before the coffee and doughnuts arrived, before the arrogant swagger of the players and boom boxes, high-fives, and back-slapping brought the joint to life. Here Sid recreates that environment with tales from within the locker room, the team hotel, and the field of play, featuring stories about Chargers greats like Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Louie Kelcher, John Jefferson, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau. Sid recounts stories unique to a life spent working behind the scenes in the Chargers locker room. With an eye for detail, he recounts tales of spies sent out to capture the opposing team's playbooks; the night the lights went out on Don Schula; wild cab rides with Fouts, Joiner, and Winslow; the zany pre-game rituals and idiosyncrasies of Russ Washington, Wilbur Young, Pat Curran, Woodrow Lowe, and others; rivalries born not on the playing field, but at thedominoes table; and plenty of pranks and good-natured ribbing.Rarely does a book offer more than a passing glance at what makes a football team a family. But Chargers fans can rejoice, because Sid Brooks not only introduces the family, h
Download or read book Won for All written by Pepper Johnson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a group of diverse individual talents and bringing them together with a single goal -- to win.
Download or read book Tales from the Chargers Sideline written by Sid Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 27-year tenure with the Chargers, beloved equipment manager Sid Brooks kept more than 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks was tasked with seeing that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated—and outrageous—than one would believe. In Tales from the Chargers Locker Room, Sid recounts stories unique to a life spent working behind the scenes in the Chargers locker room. He features stories about Chargers greats like Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Louie Kelcher, John Jefferson, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau. With an eye for detail, he recounts tales of spies sent out to capture the opposing team’s playbooks; the night the lights went out on Don Shula; wild cab rides; the zany pregame rituals and idiosyncrasies; rivalries born not on the playing field, but at the dominoes table; and plenty of pranks and good-natured ribbing. Brimming with hilarity, insight, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, Tales from the Chargers Locker Room is a must-read for every Chargers devotee.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-05-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-05-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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Download or read book Life Like Yesterday written by Carlton Moore Sr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young man trying to find his way through life. A memory of memories from the author himself. Sharing kept secrets and intimate moments of strength, courage and a little ignorance of a young boy growing up to be the man he has become.
Download or read book Competitive Dominoes written by Miguel Lugo and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From general principles to advanced skills, this fully illustrated, in-depth guide takes readers through every aspect of the game of dominoes. 131 illustrations.
Download or read book How to Play Better Dominoes written by Miguel Lugo and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercise your logic, challenge your brain, confound your opponents, and sharpen your domino skills so you'll win every time. From general principles to advanced techniques, this fully illustrated, in-depth guide takes you through every aspect of the game. "After...clearly explaining the basics...[he] introduces several challenging mental exercises designed to develop your understanding. The writer ends with four superbly explained games."--"Games."
Download or read book The Dominologist written by Nathan W Holsey and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become the best at the most popular Domino game played in America, "Double Six". Get over 30 years of experience by studying unspoken rules, tradition and technique. Learn common phrases and slang used by seasoned Domino players.
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Home Inspection written by Michael Litchfield and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to home inspection for buyers and sellers, homeowners, and professional inspectors covers all areas of the home, with information on determining hidden trouble spots, avoiding hazardous materials, and improving energy efficiency.
Download or read book Dominoes written by Dominic C. Armanino and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, Dominoes provides detailed instructions for strategic and skilled playing of several different domino games. Dominoes are popular all over the world, and should be part of every game enthusiast's repertoire. These games are fun for all ages!
