Download or read book The Night Before Christmas N Da Hood written by Lewis B. Grizzle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the idea of Christmas is intertwined with tinsel, glitter and merriment, the reality for many is one of loneliness, depression and financial challenges. A time of year that should be celebrated as a joyous occasion often becomes stressful for many. Santa doesn't always come down the chimney and in many cases doesn't show up at all. This short, easy to read story provides a lighthearted look at the Christmas experience in the Black Community, through the eyes of a lower, middle-class Black family. It can however, be related to by many that experience the down-side of Christmas and the reality of their existence highlighted by the holiday season. Get insight and possible solutions to issues faced by families from all social, economic and cultural backgrounds. See "The Night before Christmas" told by Clement Moore from a different prospective by reading "The Night before Christmas - N Da Hood".

Download or read book The Night Before Christmas in the Hood written by Debra H. Harris and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the 'hood...Who knew holidays in this part of town could be so good?The story sounds familiar: the kids are asleep while their parents are up way past bedtime. The reindeer know their role and do their part. The ground is all covered in peaceful, white snow, but... you've never imagined the Claus like this! He shows up in style and does his work with flava! Debra Harris reimagins this classic tale of Santa's hard work to make all the children of the world, even the ones in the 'hood, feel happy and loved. We think we know the whole story, but Saint Nick is full of surprises! Just check out the spinner rims on his ride... who knows what kinds of flashy gifts could be inside? Get ready to find out and start a new holiday tradition with The Night Before Christmas in the Hood.

Download or read book Christmas in Da Hood written by Martha Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, every year in New York at Christmastime, we'd watch "Twas the Night Before Christmas" on the television. My mother had a gift; she had the ability to take a single word and write whole stories and poems. One day I realized I had the same gift as my mother. I took the thoughts from my mind, put them on paper, and lo and behold, I wrote a children's book--not a story that falls too far from the tree of the original--one that deviates just enough to make you wonder what could happen if a mouse was found in the house at Christmas. Because I am from the city, I've lived among all kinds of pests, including mice. I imagined how whimsical it would be if a mouse showed up at Christmas. I also recalled one Christmas, as my mom and the 5 of us children were cleaning our 4 floor house in the city, the dogs got a hold of the turkey that was supposed to be our dinner that night. They pulled it to the floor and ate it all up. It was out of that memory that I chose to implement that storyline in the book and decided to add humor. After years of meditation, I finally wrote it out and thus, "Christmas in Da Hood" was born. This is a humorous children's story of how a family had to cope with a mouse and the excitement he brought to this household. I truly hope you enjoy this clever twist on the classic story.

Download or read book Spoken Soul written by John Russell Rickford and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." –Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all who value and question language." –Kirkus Reviews "Spoken Soul is a must read for anyone who is interested in the connection between language and identity." –Chicago Defender Claude Brown called Black English "Spoken Soul." Toni Morrison said, "It's a love, a passion. Its function is like a preacher’s: to make you stand out of your seat, make you lose yourself and hear yourself. The worst of all possible things that could happen would be to lose that language." Now renowned linguist John R. Rickford and journalist Russell J. Rickford provide the definitive guide to African American vernacular English–from its origins and features to its powerful fascination for society at large.

Download or read book Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives Complete written by United States Work Projects Administration and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My folks allus belongs to the Cavins and wore their name till after 'mancipation. Pa and ma was named Freeman and Amelia Cavin and Massa Dave fotches them to Texas from Alabama, along with ma's mother, what we called Maria. "The Cavins allus thunk lots of their niggers and Grandma Maria say, 'Why shouldn't they—it was their money.' She say there was plenty Indians here when they settled this country and they bought and traded with them without killin' them, if they could. The Indians was poor folks, jus' pilfer and loaf 'round all the time. The niggers was a heap sight better off than they was, 'cause we had plenty to eat and a place to stay. "Young Massa Tom was my special massa and he still lives here. Old Man Dave seemed to think more of his niggers than anybody and we thunk lots of our white folks. My pa was leader on the farm, and there wasn't no overseer or driver. When pa whip a nigger he needn't go to Massa Dave, but pa say, 'Go you way, you nigger. Freeman didn't whip you for nothin'.' Massa Dave allus believe pa, 'cause he tells the truth. "One time a peddler come to our house and after supper he goes to see 'bout his pony. Pa done feed that pony fifteen ears of corn. The peddler tell massa his pony ain't been fed nothin', and massa git mad and say, 'Be on you way iffen you gwine 'cuse my niggers of lyin'.' "We had good quarters and plenty to eat. I 'members when I's jus' walkin' round good pa come in from the field at night and taken me out of bed and dress me and feed me and then play with me for hours. Him bein' leader, he's gone from 'fore day till after night. The old heads got out early but us young scraps slep' till eight or nine o'clock, and don't you think Massa Dave ain't comin' round to see we is fed. I 'members him like it was yest'day, comin' to the quarters with his stick and askin' us, 'Had your breakfas'?' We'd say, 'Yes, suh.' Then he'd ask if we had 'nough or wanted any more. It look like he taken a pleasure in seein' us eat. At dinner, when the field hands come in, it am the same way. He was sho' that potlicker was fill as long as the niggers want to eat. "The hands worked from sun to sun. Massa give them li'l crops and let them work them on Saturday. Then he bought the stuff and the niggers go to Jefferson and buy clothes and sech like. Lots saved money and bought freedom 'fore the war was over. "We went to church and first the white preacher preached and then he larns our cullud preachers. I seed him ordain a cullud preacher and he told him to allus be honest. When the white preacher laid his hand on him, all the niggers git to hollerin' and shoutin' and prayin' and that nigger git scart mos' to death.

Download or read book Girls from da Hood 13 written by Ms. Michel Moore and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the drama in this latest installment of the popular Girls from da Hood Series. Get It, Get It! by Ms. Michel Moore: Monica was conceived on a pile of dirty clothes in the corner of a trap house. Cursed with a mother who worshiped the crack pipe more than her children, she quickly learned a Detroit reality: Get it how ya live or die trying. The young teenager is forced to beg, borrow, and steal to make sure she and her siblings survive to see another day. Cutthroat and conniving, Monica will make it, no matter who she has to step on or step over. You Can’t Break Usby Treasure Hernandez: Voodo and his girl, Moni, are inseparable. Like a modern Bonnie and Clyde from the hood, they let no one, even family, get in their way. When the people they do “around the way” business with turn out to be verified snakes, the ruthless couple gets revenge the only way they know how—street justice. With the law in hot pursuit, it’s Voodo and Moni against the world, just like they always knew it would be. So Far Gone by Katt: Sometimes love is the best feeling in the world, but the wrong kind of love can turn you into an entirely different person. When good-girl-turned-bad Renee gets together with Keithon, it’s them against the world, until the streets get to talking and their fairy-tale relationship turns into a full-blown nightmare. Karma steps in and has her way with the couple, and their lives will never be the same.

Download or read book Girls From da Hood 6 written by Ashley and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling superstar author Ashley & JaQuavis and the talented McCall spin the sixth gritty street drama in this popular series, where fast cash, love, and tragedy drive a trio of fast-paced stories.

Download or read book Ijamama Speaks Wisdom of a Black Sistah from the Urban Hood written by Frederick Douglas Harper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ijamama Speaks is a hilarious satire. Ijamama is a woman from the urban Hood who is accidentally discovered by a feminist magazine, Hot Heifer, after she stood up to a sexist law that allowed men to be topless in public but not women. A published interview of Ijamama in Hot Heifer magazine leads to her cohosting a feminist, late-night TV show, and eventually getting her own late-night TV show, The Ijamama Tell-It-Like-It-Is Midnight Show, targeted to urban blacks, college students, and working-class women. Although very funny, Ijamama Speaks presents meaningful lessons about rightful living and quality living through dialogues of host Ijamama with her diverse TV guests. Some of her guests include Celibate Dude, Lead Belly, Benevolent Angel, Smart-Ass White Boy, Dr. Fartenstein, PumpDaddy, Spiritual Teacher, Bootylicious Queens, Preacher-Teacher, Little Red Rapper from da Hood, and HoneyBaby.

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Download or read book Girls From da Hood 8 written by Treasure Hernandez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Books' popular Girls From da Hood series is back, bringing readers more dramatic tales about the lives of some tough, resourceful women who can hold their own when things get rough on the streets. Gabby Davenport spent the first fifteen years of her life in the suburbs, living a privileged and sheltered existence. When her mother dies unexpectedly, she is forced to move from her middle class neighborhood into Cumberland Projects in Brooklyn. Gabby's life will never be the same. Mika, the queen bee of the projects, doesn't appreciate the arrival of this private-school good girl. Mika and her posse are on a mission to make Gabby's life miserable, and things only get worse when Mika's "friend with benefits" B-Waite decides he wants to make Gabby his girl. Mika is ready to go to war to win back her man, and she doesn't care who she has to take down in the process. Keisha, Shawna, and LaRhonda are best friends forever, as the saying goes. Nothing will tear apart this tight trio—or so they think. When Keisha steps out of her box to become more of her own person, tension builds among the girls. In the eyes of her trusted friends, her lifestyle has become questionable. What happens when her secrets and desires are revealed? Shawna's life is just starting to look up. She's been hired at a major record label, and she's making enough money to move out of the projects for good. When her good news is met by fake smiles, Shawna gets a new perspective on how her girls really feel. LaRhonda sees each of her friends moving up while she's still struggling in the confines of the ghetto. After she gives birth to her second child by the age of eighteen, she feels like her dreams are out of reach. Her growing jealousy isn't easy to hide. What will happen when her misery wants company?

Download or read book Chambers s Edinburgh journal conducted by W Chambers Continued as Chambers s Journal of popular literature science and arts written by Chambers's journal and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Night Before the Night Before Christmas written by Natasha Wing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.

Download or read book TLA Film and Video Guide written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Detailed indexes by star, director, genre, country of origin, and theme *Lavishly illustrated with over 450 photos *Comprehensive selection of international cinema from over 50 countries *Over 9,000 films reviewed *Up-to-date information on video availability and pricing *Appendices with award listings, TLA Bests, and recommended films

Download or read book Mouse s Christmas Eve written by Karen L. Saulnier and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books have more complex linguistic and conceptual material, including classic fairy tales with complicated plots and sophisticated vocabulary. Level III books are appropriate for children who express ideas fairy readily in complete sentences, ask many questions, and discuss both past and future events

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