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The author is quoted as saying, "I wanted to write a book that was a celebration of black women, as too many books aren't. This is a problem not only in literature but the world at large.. Isn't it time black women were celebrated? That's what this book is." DESCRIPTION Queen Jackson, an intelligent and strong willed black woman from a rough and destructive background, fights to build a school housing the best and brightest sistas from around the country. This will be an institution of learning that not only gives them a formal education, but teaches them to do for self, take their ...

Trinity was on the way to love, peace, and happiness, but a broken community, a failing educational system, and a smoking bullet changed everything. After losing the love of her life to the same streets he was trying to save, a woman is forced to find love, happiness and a new relationship despite an out- of -control sister who strips, gets in dysfunctional relationships and plays the streets, a brother with two strikes playing the role of a field nigga, a racist murderer trying to kill husband and men of power destroying everything from her community to the dream she spent her life ...

THEY WERE RELATIONSHIPS EXPERTS THAT WERE HORRIBLE AT RELATIONSHIPS. Devon and Kevon Jackson were the picture of wealth and success on the surface, while behind closed doors went to war with the opposite sex, were emotionally crippled, and had unstable relationships with women. Kevon was the married man who preached that he was committed to his queen, while servicing an army of female fans and undercover freaks. Devon was the twice divorced brother who told middle aged women to drop their standards or die alone. Devon and his brother were the most talked about relationship experts in the ...

SHE WAS MARRIED TO A BLACK MAN AND OBSESSED WITH A CAUCASIAN.......... An African American personal assistant doesn't know if the father of her baby is the billionaire, married, white, boss she's obsessed with or her working class, black, husband she treats as inferior. This causes tension within private circles, betrayal, backstabbing, and national scandal within a secretly racist family. Things spin out of control as Candace struggles through obsession, abandonment and an identity crisis that started with her own mother, a woman equally lost and obsessed with rich, white, men. Will ...

A nun develops a traditional and sexual relationship with a man from the outside that throws her world into upheaval and changes her life forever.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PUSH THE BIRD OUT OF THE NEST SO IT CAN FLY....... Dear America, I tried yall. Really I did. He used to be a good little boy, but at thirteen things changed. There was no more honor roll or respecting your mother. It was like the devil took my baby's soul. The only thing remaining was a broken child growing into a menace. You couldn't fathom what I've gone through these last eight years. You can't imagine the worrying, pacing the floor, and wishing he would be okay. There is no love like a mother's love for her son, but that love gotta be returned. I cried for him, ...

SHE ESCAPED HELL IN THE STREETS TO FIND HELL IN THE CHURCH. After the death of Alonzo, Sheeba and Debbie start a non -traditional church where the focus is on buying the block, repairing the children, and revitalizing a community they once destroyed. They are met with opposition by Mason Dollar, a corrupt minister building a twisted empire of lies, greed, and pimping our Lord and savior. Mason has an affinity living on the wild side, as witnessed in his lust for high end prostitutes, preaching ratchet sermons, getting into chaotic relationships, and beefing with his broken daughter. Whereas...

Brenda was thirteen years old and having a baby. She was jobless, just beginning her education, and no one in her house had a man. After her child’s birth, her frustrated mother tosses her out onto the cold and unfeeling streets. Along the way Brenda is met with opposition by unfeeling drug dealers, pedophiles, perverted teachers, crime, poverty, and a system that doesn’t care about her. As she continues on in her journey she meets a series of people that teach her to care about herself and improve her child’s well - being. Although the journey is filled with pitfalls, Brenda is ...

He left prison with a Bible, a scar, and no intention of preaching—until God handed him the mic... and a former stripper with a past worth saving. He walked out of prison with a Bible, a record, and hell still clinging to his shadow. Elijah Knox didn’t come out looking for God. He came out looking for peace. But peace doesn’t come easy to a man who took the fall for someone else’s bullet and wore thirteen years like a second skin. When he stumbles into Mount Zion AME—a tired Black church with cracked stained glass and secrets buried in its pews—he meets a pastor who’s not ...

HE WAS WILLING TO FIGHT LIKE HELL, SACRIFICE EVERYTHING, AND EVEN DIE TO HAVE HIS SON IN HIS LIFE. After thirteen years in prison, a father returns to find his son calling someone else daddy, and his woman having sex with the next man. The woman he thought was the love of his life is now married to a wealthy businessman, and lives a life of opulence. The couple have brainwashed the ex- convict’s son to have nothing to do with him, while living a life so far from the street they’ve lost identity. The son is fearful and sees his father as a menace, the woman sees her ex as a chapter of ...

Despite a frustrated baby mama, dope fiend mother, stripping sister addicted to thugs, and a son who fights in school, a black father fights to make everything right. To whom it may concern, My name is John Banks Freeman. I’m the product of a father who fought to make his hood a better place, only to be gunned down by trap niggas whose profits he cut into. He died, bloody on top of me, protecting me from random gunfire. He was my hero and the most stand up brother I’d known to that point. His death brought the tragic demise of family. Without a proper man my mother fell victim to the ...

You want to know who I am? I’m the woman they point at in pictures without ever asking what it cost to be in them. I’m the headline they click on, the rumor they repeat, the image they know without knowing a damn thing about the life behind it. I used to believe in the work — in words that could save people. I thought if I was good enough, raw enough, honest enough, people would see me. The girl scribbling in worn-out notebooks, the one who stayed up all night chasing truth. But in this business, truth doesn’t pay the bills. Image does. Controversy does. Exploitation does. And if ...

A pregnant woman shoots and kills a cop in the process of murdering her innocent husband,. This leads to her incarceration, causing her to become a national hero to some and a criminal to others. Her husband, who is a multimillionaire businessman and activist, fights for not only the freedom of the mother of his children and unborn baby, but the freedom and independence of a community fallen victim to everything from prejudice to lack of opportunity. Along the way he deals with the uncertainty of death, radical racist groups, and criminal behavior.What happens when a cop is actually killed ...

SHE FOUND HIM ALONE, BROKE, AND SHIVERING IN A DUMPSTER AND MADE HIM GREAT. HE, IN TURN, WOULD CHANGE HER LIFE FOREVER. SOMETIMES EVERYTHING YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS FOUND IN THE ODDEST PLACES. A once celebrated publisher finds and assists a homeless man she finds sleeping in a dumpster on a cold, winter morning. In the future this mysterious individual turns out to be gifted with the pen and her greatest discovery, transforming himself into the most successful novelist in the country. As the woman gets closer to her new discovery, she pushes herself further away from her husband, and as her ...

After a traumatizing accident the number one basketball prospect in the country is forced to leave the game while watching his best friend become an NBA superstar, his girlfriend leave him for money and fame, his father become an alcoholic, his mother become a recluse, and the world that once greeted him with open arms now put him in a strangle hold. Things change drastically when he meets a mysterious stranger who changes his life forever. The author is quoted as saying, “I wanted to celebrate the black male struggle, as well as showing how we can overcome and rise despite our ...

THEY HAD MONEY, FAME, AND ALL THE WOMEN THEY COULD HANDLE UNTIL THEIR CASH COW BECAME AN ADDICT. COCAINE IS A HELL OF A DRUG. A celebrity primate, who is the star of the most successful show on American television, accidentally sniffs cocaine, leading to an addiction that destroys families, lives, and jobs, stemming from the primates chaotic, unpredictable and eventually deadly behavior. The owner, who left the primate alone with the coke, fights to keep his addiction secret, while at the same time feeding the habit of a monkey addicted to cocaine, as things spin out of control. Along the ...

SHE FOUGHT LIKE HELL TO SET THE EXAMPLE FOR LITTLE BLACK GIRLS EVERYWHERE ............. A successful, African American businesswoman buys up the businesses and property in the racist town she was reared in. She fights against the prejudice former owners, poor economy, corrupted educational system, and oppressed residents, to turn it into a modern black utopia. Along the way she is met with opposition by a childhood nemesis, whose family once owned the town, and upon it's sale, hold a grudge against Karen's movement, trying everything from intimidation, to violence, to arson, to bring back ...

HE WAS A KING WHO CREATED A QUEEN....... "My name is Leon Hamilton Jr. As a young child, I shot my father for damn near killing my mother. That was the turning point in our family dynamic, and I became the man of the house, even though I had yet to go through puberty. Reared in a home without direction, I was taught to be a man by strong women. This inspired my greatest creation to date, a no-nonsense black woman named Mama Sista. Mama Sista is funny, loving, and revolutionary. Over the years, I amassed a billion-dollar empire, but life still isn’t a piece of cake. I am subjected to death...

It used to be the pride of the African American community........but now it was hell.Freedom Inn was suffering. What once was a respectable, black owned, business had been transformed into a haven for drug dealers, prostitutes, and criminals of the highest order. Along with his right hand man Rico Robinson, Ernest Davis, the aging owner of a once profitable hotel, fights to keep his establishment alive with the help of a once dead community.Along the way we meet a prostitute searching for a better life and an ambitious drug dealer trying to turn bad money good. We meet exotic dancers ...

After a traumatic event, a couple take in her best friend’s children while fighting to open a center that teaches young, black males to be men, unify dollars and buy back the blocks they came of age on. Along the way they encounter Uncle Tom leadership, closest racists, a broken school system, racially motivated death threats, and haters who want to see their demise. After years of struggle, they find they are not only fighting for freedom, but also for their lives. Are the children too corrupted to be saved? Will their mother be anything other than an addict? What happens when a man who ...