Download or read book Ghetto Angels written by Robert Young and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, many young, gifted, and spiritual black men and boys face the everyday reality that "growing up black" in America can kill you. They have no guarantees from parents, friends, or family that life will last the next second, minute, or hour. B-Down Blaquemen grew up in a loving, caring family in an urban ghetto called Ridgetop. By the time he was a college student in the 1980s, he had learned the value of having someone looking out for you. Every day black men were being harassed by police, threatened and beat up by warring gangs, and exposed to the dangers of being black in a white world. B-Down got into a few scrapes himself when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this story, you will read and feel the truth of the soul and spirituality of what this young author experienced as truth and lies of growing up black, gifted, and protected by his Ghetto Angels - angels who felt his pain, heard his cries, and knew how he wanted life to be what it was supposed to be - whatever that meant for him. One day, returning to his apartment in the projects from college classes, B-Down offers his help to a young girl who he believes has wandered into the wrong neighborhood. He rescues her from what he thinks is a life of prostitution. This is one of those wrong times in the wrong place, and he is arrested. How this angry young man becomes a Ghetto Angel himself is a challenging story for today's world. A ghetto is defined as "a section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic or legal pressure." In the Middle Ages in Europe, ghettos were walled off. The walls are different today, yet today's black ghettos still threaten young people. Read today's news. Read how B-Down found himself among the helpers who called themselves Ghetto Angels.
Download or read book The Usual Auntijies written by Paven Virk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunti-ji - noun. a term sometimes used to address women older than oneself. Ji is traditionally used after someone's name to show respect, mainly by the communities of the Indian sub-continent. Somewhere in the city live three elderly, South Asian auntijies who have found themselves together in a refuge for abused women, empty of memories and bereft of their families and friends. Nearby, a new Indian bride has arrived in the country only to find herself in a place that she is utterly unprepared for. The Usual Auntijies is a bitter-sweet new comic-drama that visits the lives of four women as they embark on an inspiring, emotional and comic journey to overcome the past abuse and rediscover their sense of life, love and happiness. Exploring ideas of family and the cultural differences that exist between the East and West, the Auntijies struggle with popular Western culture and provide a hybrid cultural context which amusingly sits alongside the women's otherness and past pain. The Usual Auntijies is a celebration of all women of a particular age whose desires and struggles are too often forgotten.
Download or read book Ghetto Angels written by Robert H. Young and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frankie S Angels written by Cynthia Harris Casteel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankies Angels will become the next Waiting to Exhale. This one comes with a Maze Concert. Cynthia Harris Casteel tells the story of five women who call themselves Frankies Angels. Their love for Frankie Beverly and Maze has helped them endure the joys and pains of life. They discovered their common denominator on the Maze website and now they are on their way to Washington D.C. to meet at the first Angel Convention and a Maze concert. Some are actually expecting a surprise visit by Mr. Beverly. Before they get to the convention and concert, their life stories are revealed. The reader gets to understand why a Maze Concert is a necessity for these ladies. Frankies Angels are deeply in need of a spiritual healing and only Maze featuring Frankie Beverly can be the fix. Although this work is fiction, Cynthia incorporates real facts about their favorite singer, Frankie Beverly. The reader gets a taste of facts mixed with a toss of fiction. Your imagination will take you along with them to a Maze concert. If you have never attended a Maze concert, this book will take you there and if you have had the fortune of attending a Maze concert, youll understand exactly what they feel. Though the name Frankies Angels gives the angels an angelic tone, youll be shocked to know the real deal about some of the angels from their past to the present. Come meet, Candice, Tish, Twana, Mozelle and Ernestine.divine messengers of light. Be prepared to laugh and cry as you travel on the wings of Frankies Angels. Happy Feelings!
Download or read book Not Just Bad Kids written by Akeem Nassor Marsh and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Just Bad Kids: The Adversity and Disruptive Behavior Link explores the theory that all behavior makes sense in context. If you understand a person’s frame of reference – their background, history and experience – you can imagine what might be driving their behavior. The book describes the social, cultural and environmental factors that shape the lives of many youths, including early childhood attachment which sets the foundation for how they interact with authority figures. The book also delves into an explanation of conduct disorder which is characterized by persistent, repetitive behaviors that violate the basic rights of other human beings and break rules. Studies have shown that conduct disorder affects 1-4% of adolescents in the United States and oppositional defiant disorder is estimated to develop in approximately 10.2% of children. The presence of DBD is also known to be more prevalent in boys than it is in girls. As there is a growing need to understand why children and adolescent exhibit signs of hostility, defiance and isolation, this book is an ideal resource for this timely topic. Encompasses both ODD and conduct disorder Introduces readers to the social, cultural and environmental factors that play a crucial part in disruptive behavior Demonstrates the interrelationship of attachment problems, chronic trauma and disruptive behavior Discusses current best practices for intervention and treatment in youth with disruptive behaviors Provides casework examples of patients with disruptive behavior disorder
Download or read book Orpheus written by Kenneth McLeish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 21st Century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus written in the lyrical style of Greek tragedy. Commissioned by the Actors Touring Company, Orpheus opened with shows Ireland and in Greece and was followed by a full UK tour in 1997.
Download or read book Street Scriptures written by Alejandro Nava and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life. The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred. Nava reveals a largely unheard religious heartbeat in hip-hop, exploring crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Bad Bunny to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”
Download or read book Politically Red written by Eduardo Cadava and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence. “Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines, as it were, and even behind them, Cadava and Nadal-Melsió engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing are never solitary tasks, but always collaborative and collective, and able to revitalize our shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a “red common-wealth”—an archive of vast resources for doing political work and, in particular, anti-racist work—they demonstrate that sentences, as dynamic repositories of social relations, are historical and political events.
Download or read book Wounds that Will Not Heal written by Russell Nieli and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who had fought the good fight against segregation and Jim Crow to further a color-blind justice, with a sense of outrage and deep betrayal. In the more than forty years that preference policies have been with us little has changed in terms of public opinion, as polls indicate that a majority of Americans continue to oppose such policies, often with great intensity. In Wounds That Will Not Heal political theorist Russell K. Nieli surveys some of the more important social science research on racial preference policies over the past two decades, much of which, he shows, undermines the central claims of preference policy supporters. The mere fact that preference policies have to be referred to through an elaborate system of euphemisms and code words-- "affirmative action," "diversity," "goals and timetables," "race sensitive admissions"-- tells us something, Nieli argues, about their widespread unpopularity, their tendency to reinforce negative stereotypes about their intended beneficiaries, and their incompatibility with core principles of American justice. Nieli concludes with an impassioned plea to refocus our public attention on the "truly disadvantaged" African American population in our nation's urban centers--the people for whom affirmative action policies were initially instituted but whose interests, Nieli charges, were soon forgotten as the fruits of the policies were hijacked by members of the black and Hispanic middle class. Few will be able to read this book without at least questioning the wisdom of our current race-based preference regime, which Nieli analyses with a penetrating gaze and an eye for cant that will leave few unmoved.
Download or read book Who Shot Ya written by Ernie Paniccioli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Jay-Z and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Eminem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hiphop’s emerging talent. With more than 200 photographs that have been culled from a vast archive, Who Shot Ya? is the first major pictorial history of hiphop culture.
Download or read book Angel of the Ghetto written by Sam Solasz and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel of the Ghetto tells the remarkable story of Sam Solasz, a boy born into a warm and loving Jewish family in Poland in 1928. Sam inhabited a protected world until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. which tore his world apart. Ripped from his family, young Sam lived a nomadic and dangerous life. He had to learn to depend on his resourcefulness and the keen ability he had to size up people and events around him. Trapped in the Bialystok Ghetto, in inhuman conditions and hounded by the brutal Gestapo, Sam helped other starving and fearful souls. He did this by risking his life each day to smuggle in food, medicines and other desperately needed goods. He also managed to sneak arms into the ghetto for the Jewish underground in preparation for the Uprising against the Nazis. As the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust, this extraordinary boy grew into an extraordinary man. Sam went on to fight for the independence of Israel in the Israeli Defense Forces and eventually achieved his dream and made his way to New York City. He arrived with ten dollars in his pocket. Once there he used his strength and hard-won business savvy to build a highly successful business as well as a new and loving family. This unforgettable memoir is a different kind of Holocaust account. It is a gripping tale of love and loss, of survival and courage, but also of reconnection, regeneration and hope.
Download or read book The Sins of a Ghetto Angel written by M. Keyes and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of us are trying to find our way. Some of us are beautiful disasters. But for Angel Hassan, both situations ring true. Living in the Jackson Youth Home for the last four years, she has endured an endless number of fights, inherited one authentic friend, and left with a potential future filled with defeat. Or is it? With no family, no savings, and graduating out of a failing system, Angel is forced to find her own way, quickly learning that the streets aren't meant for a young woman. Unfortunately, she is also finding out that life is indeed like a box of chocolate, and at every turn, she is sampling a different treat and trick like never before. Heart wrenching. Raw. And unforgiving. It's survival of the fittest, and if Angel isn't prepared, she'll be swallowed whole. This riveting urban African American story, The Sins of a Ghetto Angel, tells the tale of unconventional love, the tests of true friendship, and imminent survival"--Amazon.com
Download or read book Words Gone Two Soon written by Mbulelo Mzamane and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nelly s Angels written by Zyra Saunders and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the best day of your life suddenly becoming the worst. Shekinah Glorie is a fifteen-year-old naiveté who is forced from her comfortable suburban lifestyle in Wheeling, West Virginia, only to be thrust into the middle of the ghetto in Toledo, Ohio, to live with the family of a dad she's never known. Shekinah uses her circumstances to give birth to a beast within her soul as she takes on a "good girl gone bad" persona, which is quickly put to the test when she bumps into the neighborhood bullies. Nevaeh Johnson and Hajirah Valez are self-proclaimed sisters, and hood chicks, with an attitude big enough to match Shekinah's. After a heated exchange, they learn that their bad girl attitudes aren't the only thing they have in common. They realize that they've all lost loved ones to gang violence, and so they turn their anger towards the neighborhood gangsters, formulating a plan to cut the head off the snake once and for all. No one is exempt, not even family. This is the story of three teens who fight to bring justice to their community and pave the way for hurting hearts to heal all over the world. In a neighborhood where the police are just another gang, these girls are taking the law into their own hands. Vengeance is theirs!
Download or read book Angels in the Silicon written by Richard Theodor Kusiolek and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Thaddeus Sikorski, a herculean third-generation American, courageous, persevering, and surprisingly steadfast father of this tragic odyssey to love and protect his angel children. After losing his first love, 18-year-old Thad enlist, and goes on to become a Vietnam War combatant, a San Francisco progressive street revolutionary, a graduate business student, an Internet-related technology visionary, husband, and a global business leader. In between entrepreneurial misadventures, he manages to save the life of an American President, struggles with a psychopathy attorney and murderer, discovers the truth about Silicon Valley's justice system, experiences the economic hollowing out brought on by the outsourcing of Silicon Valley technologies, and survives the emotions of remaining true to his love for his children. This extraordinary journey travels through three decades of the American technology and cultural landscape. Author Richard Kusiolek paid much attention to the details of everyday life of an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Angels in the Silicon encapsulates the experience of living in Silicon Valley for three decades of rapid technology progress, economic change, and a politically correct progressive judiciary. • The novel, "Angels in the Silicon", has a powerful American story to tell. • You will learn the naked truth of living in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Download or read book Cartographies written by Marjorie Agosín and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the impulse behind Cartographies, Marjorie Agosín writes, "I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home." In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosín evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret map of her memory, which "does not betray." Agosín's journey begins in Chile, where she spent her childhood before her family left in the early days of the Pinochet dictatorship. Of Santiago Agosín writes, "Day and night I think about my city. I dream the dream of all exiles." Agosín also travels to Prague and Vienna, ancestral homes of her grandparents, and to Valparaíso in Chile, which received them as immigrants. Kneeling among the yellow mounds at the Terezin concentration camp, where twenty-two of her relatives died, Agosín places "small stones, shrubs, the stuff of life on graves I did not recognize." And then on through the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Americas . . . Everywhere, she is drawn to women in whose devotion and creativity she sees a deep vein of hope--from Julia, keeper of the synagogue at Rhodes, to the women potters in the Chilean town of Pomaire. Agosín writes of diaspora, exile, and oppression, yet only to highlight the dignity and valor of those who find refuge in their humanity and their art, in community and tradition. Cartographies shows us what can be found when we journey with openness, as approachable to strangers as we are to ourselves.
