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A young Black man, Darian Thompson, returned from college to his parents’ home situated on a quiet street while he attempted to find suitable employment that matched his degree and skills. A simple trip to the corner mailbox led to a chance encounter with his older White neighbor, Lisa, who was once his babysitter. Unbeknownst to Darian, Lisa was now divorced. After a brief discussion, Lisa discovered Darian’s computer skills and enlisted his services for a business project she was envisioning. Little did Darian know that his unexpected meeting with his next door neighbor would lead to ...

Standing in the shadow of Dr. King’s thirty foot tall image in Washington D.C caused me to ponder the question of what would Dr. King think about Black America today, 46 years after his death? We have an African American President living two miles from his national memorial while there are more Blacks in prison than any other race in the United States. Individuals of all races are marching in protest of unarmed black men dying at the hands of police officers. Protestors carry signs saying “Black Lives Matter” while young Black men kill each other more than any other group in poverty ...

Tasha Williams is a beautiful, proud and confident twenty-eight year old woman who finds herself in the midst of a torrid affair with the dynamic pastor of her mother’s church. Handsome and dashing Kendrick Johnson took notice of Tasha as she sat on the front pew when visiting his church with her mother. When a random circumstance occurred that placed Tasha and Kendrick in the same place alone, he made his move. Tasha was taken by the charm, command and forbidden raw sexuality of Pastor Kendrick Johnson. Tasha and Kendrick committed acts that should have caused them to be sent straight to...

John was a frustrated business professional weary of watching others break the rules to get ahead and being handsomely rewarded while he seemed to be working hard while getting nowhere fast. John had a plan, but needed someone with the right connections to pull it off. John knew just the person to reach out to in the form of his former high school classmate, Randi, who was married to an older man who happened to be a billionaire. Randi and her group of influential women friends had the contacts John required to get his business off the ground. With Randi’s help John discovered two common ...

Things You Can’t Tell Mama - The Pastor's Wife Everyone has done something at one point in their lives when they think – I can’t tell mama about this. Twenty year old Quinton Taylor is home from college and had a huge “Things I Can’t Tell Mama” experience with the wife of the church pastor that also happens to be his mother’s coworker. The first in the “Things You Can’t Tell Mama” series – The Pastor’s Wife - is the story of how a young man becomes entangled with the wife of the pastor of his mother’s church, Latavia Harper, during his time home from college during...

Racial tensions in the United States were simmering and in June of 2018 they boiled over as images began to flow out of the United States of America showing migrant children separated from their parents at the southwestern border confined within metal cages per orders from the President of the United States. Outrage exploded within the United States and around the world, but some were supportive of the migrant family separation policy and fully backed President Trump’s tough immigration stance. The migrant family separation crisis was completely manufactured by the President and another ...

Tasha Moore, Quinton’s old high school classmate and the last woman he was with before he married Latavia posts pictures online of her with Quinton naked in bed together in Las Vegas. Quinton can’t remember anything that happened that night in Las Vegas. Quinton and Latavia face the greatest challenge in their two year old marriage as they try to figure out why Tasha suddenly reappeared and is determined to take Quinton from his fifteen years older former church pastor’s wife. Tasha threatens to release even more damaging material that would end Quinton’s professional football ...

Tasha Johnson and Latavia Taylor lived in a secluded area in southern Dallas until two new neighbors built homes adjacent to theirs. Amber Watkins was a woman in her twenties that was a former side piece to married professional athletes and other wealthy men with wives. Tanesha Green-Johnson, a model, was once featured on the front cover of a national magazine as the Planet’s Most Beautiful Woman. Both women aroused concern from Latavia and Tasha in regards to any interest they might have in their pro football player and mega church pastor husbands respectively. Amber arranged a surprise ...

Things You Can’t Tell Mama – Her Man Was Once Yours Everyone has done something at one point in their lives when they think – I can’t tell mama about this. Twenty-four year old Tanesha Green comes home to visit her mother and had a massive “Things I Can’t Tell Mama” experience when she meets her mother’s new fiancé, KJ, who turns out to be the man she lived with for 3 years while she was in college. The second in the “Things You Can’t Tell Mama” series – Her Man Was Once Yours - is the story of how a young woman feels trapped by circumstances because her old lover ...

Patricia Franklin’s granddaughter unexpectedly dropped in on her and caught Patricia making love with a thirty-year old man. Patricia reinvented herself at the age of fifty six after her husband of thirty seven years left her for a younger woman. Urged by her good friend Jana, Patricia reclaimed her life and sexuality while demonstrating how active and sensual a mother and grandmother could be. Determined to not be defined by society’s view of what’s proper for a woman her age to be involved in from a relationship and sexual standpoint, Patricia broke all the rules. Patricia is one ...

In 1787 the United States agreed to count slaves as three fifths of a person and now over one hundred and fifty years after slavery ended African Americans are in some ways one eighth of White Americans, what went wrong. Racism and hate for the skin Black people are in has taken and still takes a devastating toll on African Americans in particular and other minorities overall. In the third decade of the 21st century open racial animosity was proudly being displayed and practiced. Black Americans were experiencing a backlash designed to push them back to a more subservient role in ...

Roland “Gut Bucket” Johnson walked into a church and stopped his own funeral with a copy of his obituary in his hand. Roland walked out with his formerly grieving wife, Velma, in his arms. Roland was a throwback of a man, hard drinking, hard fighting and woman chasing. Although they loved each other, neither Roland or Velma expected each other to be faithful if they were apart for long periods of time, but Roland had a special problem resisting tasting the fruits of ratchet women regardless of their or his marital status. Roland decided he needed to confront the demons that chased him. ...

President Barack Obama won a decisive victory in the 2012 Presidential election over his challenger Mitt Romney. The voting public spoke loudly on the direction they wanted the United States to proceed, but there seems to a political revolt taking place at the state government level. Many Republican governors and other GOP politicians decided that they would go in a different direction than the national electorate and started a political uncivil war to oppose implementing as many Obama initiatives as possible at the state level. The day after President Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the ...

VULTURE CAPITALISM There are true Vulture Capitalists operating in the world and they are the partners of the vampire capitalists. Vulture capitalists thrive on the economic remains of what has been destroyed by exploitive economic activity. Just like a scavenger in nature that survives by consuming carrion left over from kills or natural death, vulture capitalists thrive on financial destruction. VAMPIRE CAPITALISM : economic behavior under the umbrella of capitalism that consists of primarily financial based activities that are largely disconnected from actual capital goods creation and ...

Many of us are stunned and are looking around in wonder at what not only happened to our careers, but how did some industries transform themselves from what seemed like endless seas of opportunities into confined pools. If your job has disappeared or become two sizes too small, you are not alone and it was not an accident. Find out what happened and what you can do about it in, “Who Moved My Ocean – Avoid The Shrinking Job Trap.”

An unassuming man named Chris encounters various individuals during the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. After being both disappointed and encouraged by the actions of those he encountered, Chris sets events in motion that shock the world.

In a moment not seen before in American Presidential politics, a candidate for a major political party in the United States was exposed on video saying it was not his job to worry about 47% of the people that paid no income taxes, believed they were owed government entitlements and took no personal responsibility for their lives. Mitt Romney, who was running for President of the United States, then said it was not his job to worry about those people. What would President Mitt Romney’s America look like?

The Presidential election of 2016 was unlike anything the United States had ever seen before. The Presidential campaign between Trump and Hillary Clinton was vicious and divisive. The campaign was personal and at times vulgar. Trump advocated a ban on Muslims entering the country and ejecting 11 million undocumented immigrants by force if necessary during the campaign. Trump prevailed in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by over 2.8 million votes. Trump won by appealing to White working class voters and won key Rust Belt states. Trump’s surprise win left over half the ...

This is the account of my personal novel coronavirus pandemic and each of us has our version. I chronicled my actions and thoughts as time progressed while it became clear that this was the most serious health crisis of our lifetimes. Then as events unfolded it became clear to me that our situation in the United States was somewhat unique and likely made worse due to incompetence, inaction and delays cause by our political leadership. The United States was virtually shut down in an attempt to slow the spread of this new virus that caused a disease called COVID-19 with no treatments or ...

Carnage Control – Surviving The Gun God The United States of America is awash in guns with over 270,000,000 in the hands of private individuals. Gun violence and deaths happen at an alarming pace every day and recently, stunning acts of mass shootings have staggered the public’s sensibilities. The final straw may have been the killing of 27 people, including 20 six and seven year old students when Adam Lanza attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut armed with a semiautomatic assault style rifle in December, 2012. Public outrage has led to a renewed effort to curb ...