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Gangbanging had been a destructive force in Los Angeles County for nearly thirty years, and resulted in the murders of thousands of Black and Hispanic males. As the millennium approached, gang wars between Bloods, Crips, and different Crip factions continued to harm the Black community. Violent crime resulted in the forced removal of Black males from the Black community through murder and incarceration. And despite the negativity caused by gangbanging, Black youth continued to enter that lifestyle. Antoine Edwards was raised in the City of Hawthorne, which was one of 88 cities in Los ...

Filled with interviews of friends, family, and acquaintances as well as people who knew and grew up with Raymond Lee Washington. Don't look here for horrific stories of gang violence and crimes committed by gang members; that has been done before. If you are looking for a factual and intuitive look into what made Raymond Washington unique on the mean streets of Los Angeles, this book is for you. This book is filled with stories and eyewitness accounts of those who knew who the real founder of the Crips gang was.

In Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a predetermined limit. 

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path. Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning...

On the night of September 07th, 1996, Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were riding in a black BMW 750iL sedan and were headed to Knight’s Death Row Record nightclub, Club 662 (MOB) in Las Vegas. Earlier that evening, Shakur, Knight and their entourage attended the Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand. After the fight, members of the entourage spotted Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, a Southside Compton Crip who allegedly had robbed a Death Row Record chain medallion from one of them earlier that year. Immediately, the group assaulted Anderson for stealing the medallion in the lobby of the MGM ...

“Jeff Pearlman breaks down Tupac’s life like a veteran sportswriter examining a dynasty. This detailed look at his life is the work of a writer who understands the ego of greatness.”—Chuck D “Pearlman delivers rich, engrossing, and fascinating new details about Shakur’s life and...

"Hunt or be hunted." Jack Raines, a former Marine, and his lifelong friends Ethan, Ben, and Tommy, head into the Pacific Northwest for their traditional annual hunt for whitetail deer. However, the tables turn dramatically when they encounter a massive Sasquatch deep in the woods. Now fighting for their lives, the group is pushed to their limits to make sure this isn't their final hunt. As the hunted, they face a brutal struggle to survive, desperately trying to outsmart and escape their formidable pursuer.

True Stories of Terror and Mystery from the American Wilderness They are the shadows in the trees, the eyes that watch from the darkness, the creatures science refuses to believe—and yet people keep encountering them. In Cryptid Encounters: Volume One, real people recount their chilling, first-person experiences with the unexplained and the inhuman. From remote forests in Alaska to forgotten backroads in the South, these gripping accounts bring readers face-to-face with creatures that defy logic and challenge everything we think we know about the natural world. Told in vivid detail, each ...

Suspended between gang boundaries drawn with red and blue rags, young Norman Anthony Coulter Jr. navigated Inglewood and South Central Los Angeles like a Viking unsure of what lay west. Always slow to “throw” punches in the face of provocation, he later found that the world at large was not any different from the ‘hood. People seek safety by assimilating into tribes. But our true selves allow us to align our behaviors with our core beliefs whereas false versions of ourselves take on the identity of the tribe.

With the cutthroat Miko Dunbar finally out of the equation, Wah and Baby Shug eagerly rise to the occasion and ball out like big bosses, going hard in the hood while living the exclusive life. They immediately surround themselves with savage squads of street soldiers as the dive headfirst into the ruthless drug trade, only to realize that the saying is actually true; with more money comes more problems. Out the gate, scandalous treachery forces Baby Shug to do the unimaginable, while Wah faces a multitude of challenging situations that threaten his peace of mind, as well as his life. Miko's...

After doing 15 years in maximum security prisons, Star’s murder conviction is overturned and he’s set free. Determined to restore his neighborhood to the way it was before he left, Star teams up with his dead best friend’s younger brother and makes his move. But times are different and the younger generation respects none of the OG’s or the game, and won’t hesitate to let their guns talk. Star’s takeover seems like a cake walk until greed and envy blind the men who stand on the side of him.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over. That’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful...

For 20 years, gang unit detectives Tim Brennan and Robert Ladd patrolled the streets of Compton. They witnessed the birth and rise of gangsta rap with acts they knew personally, such as N.W.A and D.J. Quik; dealt firsthand with the chaos of the L.A. riots, its aftermath, and the gang truce that followed; were involved in the investigations of the murders of hip-hop stars Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., and were major players in an all-out tug-of-war with City Hall that ultimately resulted in the permanent shut-down of the Compton Police Department.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly...

Back in 1989, a young thug named Bad Boy steals five million dollars from Kiko Dunbar, one of the most feared kingpins in California. He buries the money in his mother's backyard under the lemon tree. With the ruthless kingpin hot on his heels, Bad Boy is forced to kill the bloodthirsty Kiko Dunbar and ends up paying the ultimate price as a result; a life sentence in prison. Nearly two and a half decades later, Bad Boy makes the fatal mistake of revealing his secret to his cellie, a young street savage named Wicked, who gets out of prison hellbent on finding out if there is any truth to the...

For the man who already has it all, the reasonable thing to do is to take even more! Xavier Hightower, leader of the Duffle Bag Bwoys, robs a massive Mexican shipment that puts his crew at the top of the cartels assassination list. The ruthless criminal mastermind is determined to dominate the state of California in a savage manner never before seen. He gives birth to the first West Coast crime family that he affectionately dubs; the Golden State Heavyweights. But when war is declared on Xavier's criminal empire, he must deal with his demons at the same time that treachery from within ...

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After sending her ex-fiance to prison for a pair of murders that she callously orchestrated, and putting his brother Wah in a coma with six shots from her .380, Miko Dunbar has every intention of becoming the coldest queenpin California has ever known. With Deeply Rooted ambitions of following in her father's footsteps, Miko vows never to make the same mistake her kingpin father made, she swears not to meet with the same fate he had. But Miko's cutthroat approach to the game ruffles a lot of feathers, and some of Southeast San Diego's more notorious gangsta's take offense with how she ...

This book is user-friendly. Each chapter will be dedicated to one month. Within each chapter, there will be a subsection for each week. Subsequently, a passage for each day will give the listener a slice of what it means to live with a disability. By taking this cultural journey, the listener will be able to interact with the disabled community and other minority groups authentically.