Download or read book YaYa written by Claudia Barker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Aspirations/Young Artists (YA/YA), Inc., is the phenomenal New Orleans nonprofit arts organization started by the painter Jana Napoli in 1988. It is part school, part community center, part gallery, part working studio. But it is the commercial-art students - primarily African Americans - from nearby L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet High School in the city's central business district who breathe life into that entity. They are the YA/YAs. The YA/YAs came to the attention of the outside world through their painted chairs. Napoli first had them depict their dreams and fears on secondhand furniture and then arranged an exhibit at Lincoln Center in New York. It was a success that launched the young artists into an upward spiral of fame. In YA/YA! - a combination history, collective memoir, and guidebook - former YA/YA director Claudia Barker conveys with infectious enthusiasm the hip, happening creativity that thrives at YA/YA. She follows the trajectory of eight original YA/YAs from their early doubts and trials to their triumphal status as senior Guild members and mentors to succeeding YA/YA "generations". The group's spirit is mirrored in the book's free-form design: comments from staff and students, including deeply felt statements about their ideas and work, and scores of color photographs approximating the visual impact of the YA/YAs' art combine with Barker's own reflective narrative. By reviewing the path that YA/YA has traveled in raising funds, getting publicity, defining its purpose, and striving for harmony, she outlines a model for similar programs in other communities.

Download or read book Gumbo Ya Ya written by Aurielle Marie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies “by the barrel of the law” or “for loving another Black gxrl.” Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied. Excerpt from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls” What I mean is, this country is mine if only because from my mouth I spit its loam and unspun a noose. I won’t exploit the only metaphor they gave us willingly, and instead hunt for other vicious things to make a muse. I earned this country. I owe it nothing. With my infinite, infant hand, I manipulated a death sentence into a compound-complex one. from the umbilical, I bled a life worth writing down and in a century’s time, there will be another word created still for the weeping magic of this same story: a Black gxrl’s first breath.

Download or read book I Give You Half the Road written by Carol Spindel and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ivory Coast, the farewell “I give you half the road” is an expression of hospitality, urging a departing guest to come back again. After their first stay in a welcoming rural community in 1981, Carol Spindel and her husband did just that. Over the course of decades, they built a house and returned frequently, deepening their relationships with neighbors. Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five neighbors. Their stories reveal Ivorians determined to reunite a divided country through reliance on mutual respect and obligation even while power-hungry politicians pursued xenophobic and anti-immigrant platforms for personal gain. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasizes the importance of connection, generosity, and forgiveness.

Download or read book This Life Only For Meeting You written by Liang Feng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She had spent all her family property to help him out, and he had married another woman behind her back." Scum! I will never forgive you again! " Grief and despair met with rogues who took advantage of the situation. Li Shu had a vengeful heart, so she picked up a random man and spent the night with him. She had thought that they would meet by chance, but this man had pestered her and she couldn't get rid of him ...

Download or read book Poetry written by Harriet Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yaya s Story written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illness—cancer—those differences evaporated, and the two were brought to profound existential convergence, a deep camaraderie in the face of the most harrowing of circumstances. Yaya’s Story is that story. Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. It’s a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on.

Download or read book The Prada Plan 4 written by Ashley Antoinette and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indie grows exasperated with trying to help his love, YaYa, overcome her failures, but when he receives a phone call stating that she is in trouble, Indie needs to figure out if he is truly done with YaYa after all. Original.

Download or read book Too Close For Comfort written by La Jill Hunt and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quincy Westbrooke has been in the dating game long enough to know exactly what he's looking for in a woman: tall, attractive, long hair, intelligent, no kids, independent, and most of all, drama free! His perfect criteria is thrown out the window when he meets Paige Michaels. "No" isn't a word that Charysse Westbrooke is used to hearing from anyone, but now it seems to be a part of her brother's vocabulary, and she thinks it's because of Paige, the new woman in his life, and she ain't having it. Paige Michaels is living the good life and loving it. Her plate is too full with her job, her daughter, her friends, and her new man to even be worried about her ex-boyfriend or his new wife. Find out what happens when Paige is confronted with a mix of friends, family, her baby daddy, her baby daddy's family, his friends, his sister, and all kinds of issues in between. It doesn't take long before the drama rises to the next level.

Download or read book The Prada Plan written by Ashley Antoinette and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaya Morgan’s infatuation with money knows no limits, and she will do anything to get it. When she is accepted into a New York organization known as The Elite, she is under the impression that she will be a high paid model, but soon realizes that she’s stepped into a world of sex and lies. She is befriended by Leah, the headmistress of The Elite, and together they make more money than they can spend. Nothing is too erotic for the pair, and Disaya soon finds herself knee-deep in a world where “no” means “yes,” and there is no way out. She meets Indie and falls hopelessly in love with him while she tries her hardest to keep her lifestyle a secret. But everything done in the dark eventually comes to light. When she loses control of her own hustle, things go horribly wrong, and she learns the hard way that in the game she’s playing, there are no winners.

Download or read book Deep Love Unforgettable written by Mo Shang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the anniversary of their wedding, Little San performed well with his poor acting skills. Facing the criticism of the crowd and the indifference of his husband, Su Mei's heart was like dying embers. Three years of marriage was like three years of imprisonment. Chu Mingyuan's appearance was like a ray of light, carrying Su Mo away from the darkness. After all, they had met in university with unforgettable feelings ... Before he met the right person, all he had done was pass by them casually ...

Download or read book Forbidden to the Powerful Greek written by Carol Marinelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tycoon will risk it all in this emotional workplace romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carol Marinelli. The Greek’s rule: She needs to make the first move… The secret to Galen Pallas’s success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula Drakos is disruption personified! Most disruptive of all is their smoldering attraction—which he can’t act on when he hires her as his temporary PA! Roula’s worked hard to put her marriage behind her. Intimacy isn’t something she ever wants again. Yet swept into her boss’s glamorous world, she’s never felt so safe or desired. Can this shy Cinderella be bold enough to tempt Galen to take the ultimate risk—on her? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Cinderellas of Convenience books: Book 1: The Greek's Cinderella Deal Book 2: Forbidden to the Powerful Greek

Download or read book Harlequin Presents March 2022 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Carol Marinelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations. This box set includes: FORBIDDEN TO THE POWERFUL GREEK (A Cinderellas of Convenience novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Carol Marinelli The secret to Galen’s success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula is disruption personified! Most disruptive of all? The smoldering attraction he can’t act on when he hires her as his temporary PA! CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR WEDDING CHARADE by USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams Jess doesn’t know what she was thinking striking a just-for-show arrangement to accompany notorious playboy Curtis to an A-List wedding. What will the paparazzi uncover first – their charade…or that Jess is now expecting his baby? THE INNOCENT'S ONE-NIGHT PROPOSAL by author Jackie Ashenden After everything cynical Castor has witnessed, there’s almost nothing he’s surprised by. But naïve Glory’s offer to sell him her virginity floors him! Of course, it’s out of the question. Instead, he makes a counter-proposal: become his convenient bride! THE COST OF THEIR ROYAL FLING (A Princesses by Royal Decree novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Lucy Monroe Prince Dimitri’s mission to discover who’s leaking palace secrets leads him to an incendiary fling with Jenna. As their connection deepens, could the truth cost him the only woman that sees beyond his royal title...? For more stories filled with passion and drama, look for Harlequin Presents March 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2

Download or read book How Beautiful We Were written by Imbolo Mbue and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, Marie Claire, Ms. magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews “Mbue reaches for the moon and, by the novel’s end, has it firmly held in her hand.”—NPR We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interests. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle will last for decades and come at a steep price. Told from the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.

Download or read book The Number One Princess written by Robert Davis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her mother, while loving and caring to her children, was the ruthless and cunning, Hayee Hellcat, Queen Ramala. Queen Ramala, with the help of her Butchers, took over of tribal lands, forming her own kingdom, called the House of Ra. Her father, the Butcher Dan the Destroyer, was the womanizing Heathen King of Ra. The King won battles for his Queen, while always finding time for his own personal adventures. Named after her mother, the Ra, Ramala was the first born girl to the King and Queen of Ra. She, along with her sibling, were taught and trained by her mother in survival techniques, as well as Ruling protocol. This was done to insure their survival, in a time of tribal warfare, when most everyone would do whatever it took to become the next Ruling clan. Little Ramala loved the way her mother ordered people around and wanted to do the same. Having to live with some of the most unruly sibling, in the history of siblings, Little Ramala used ruling protocol to help her deal with them. After getting positive results, she quickly used ruling protocol on maids, servants and anyone else she could. Little Ramala was a daddy's girl and was spoiled by her father. Every little girl is a princess in her father's eyes. Living and growing up in a warring society, where she witnessed treachery, deceit, murder and mayhem, young Ramala quickly learned the ways of the world. Using the motley crew of her siblings, along with everything she learned from her mother, young Ramala decided to let everyone know that, after what they did for their Queen, they were expected to do what she wanted, after that. Everyone quickly learned, until she became Queen, she was the Number One Princess.

Download or read book The Lights of Pointe Noire written by Alain Mabanckou and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling meditation on home-coming and belonging from one of “Africa’s greatest writers” and the Man Booker International Prize finalist (The Guardian). Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came back to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on the Congo’s southwestern coast, he found a country that in some ways had changed beyond recognition: The cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture had become a Pentecostal church, and his secondary school has been renamed in honor of a previously despised colonial ruler. But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture that still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Now a decorated writer and an esteemed professor at UCLA, Mabanckou finds he can only look on as an outsider in the place where he grew up. As he delves into his childhood, into the life of his departed mother, and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that informs his return to the Republic of the Congo, his work recalls the writing of V. S. Naipaul and André Aciman, offering a startlingly fresh perspective on the pain of exile, the ghosts of memory, and the paths we take back home. Grand Prize Winner at the 2015 French Voices Awards “This is a beautiful book, the past hauntingly reentered, the present truthfully faced, and the translation rises gorgeously to the challenge.” —Salman Rushdie “A tender, poetic chronicle of an exile’s return.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book The Prada Plan 3 Green Eyed Monster written by Ashley Antoinette and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering from a fire that wounded both her and Leah, YaYa heals under the eye of a woman ready to put her back on top, but before she can move on and live happily with Indie, YaYa decides that Leah needs to be removed from the picture.

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