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In the companion to her acclaimed So Done, Paula Chase follows best friends Simp and Rollie as their friendship is threatened by the pressures of basketball, upcoming auditions, middle school, and their growing involvement in the local drug ring.Dough Boys is a memorably vivid story about the complex friendship between two African American boys whose lives are heading down very different paths. For fans of Jason Reynolds's Ghost and Rebecca Stead's Goodbye Stranger.Deontae ?Simp? Wright has big plans for his future. Plans that involve basketball, his best friend, Rollie, and making enough money to get his mom and four younger brothers out of the Cove, their low-income housing project.Long term, this means the NBA. Short term, it means being a dough boy?getting paid to play lookout and eventually moving up the rungs of the neighborhood drug operation with Rollie as his partner.Roland ?Rollie? Matthews used to love playing basketball. He loved the rhythm of the game, how he came up with his best drumbeats after running up and down the court. But playing with the elite team comes with extra, illegal responsibilities, and Rollie isn't sure he's down for that life. The new talented-and-gifted program, where Rollie has a chance to audition for a real-life go-go band, seems like the perfect excuse to stop being a dough boy. But how can he abandon his best friend?Paula Chase explores universal themes of friendship and budding romance, while also exploring complex issues that affect many young teens. Full of basketball, friendship, and daily life in a housing project, this universal story is perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds's Track series, Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys, and Chris Crutcher.

Who gets to be a part of Latinidad? While Valery fights to prove Ximena isn't Cuban, Alia has given up fighting that she is Latine. As the women in this play discover the truth about themselves and each other, they also have to face the internal bias that allowed a white woman to be Cuban but didn't allow a Belizean to call herself Latine.

The idea for Dark Matter Man began outside a store at a gasoline pump. I got into a conversation with a man about superheroes. Once he found out that I was an author he commented, "You know Tom, all the superheroes from other planets are white, and being a black man, that has never sat well with me. Why can't black people be from other planets as well?"I replied, "Let's see if I can do something about that, and make a change. I never thought about it but after listening to guess that you are correct."We shook hands and departed own separate ways. This is where the idea of Dark Matter Man was birthed. Also, it begins in another parallel universe other than our own, but ends up on planet Earth.To develop Dark Matter Man, I looked towards Africa because in ancient times, the African people had mathematics, geometry, astronomy, science, architecture, advanced stone African, people they even had advanced irrigation systems, and their societies rivaled the ones in Europe However, slavery destroyed most of the knowledge, where the youth have little knowledge about them This helped me develop the world of Centurion. It took a similar demise just as Africa.In the story, I brought up how Dark Matter Man's contempt for the Primordus, while being dominated, subjected to their harsh treatment. He was ordered about without regard of for his own life. One can identify with the status quo that still exists in our own society today, and his contempt. Writing Dark Matter Man, I made sure that he faced the same challenges that an African American, in our society would face today. This helped me bring this story to reality by him identifying with his distaste for authority on both worlds.Next, developing the villain in the story, the Primordus, their concept came from Africanized Honey Bees because they were accidentally released and still wreak havoc. They were created as a deadly mistake by a well-intended scientist. The exact very same problem happened when the Primordus were created. They were created to better utilize the brightest sun on their own planet but the experiment went awfully wrong, and they decimated the Derum.In the story the Primordus enslaved the Derum, stole their technology, and viead them as insignificant, and utilized them the same way we utilize cows, and chickens in our own society InFother words, they took over and destroyed his people for their own benefit. Also, developing the Primordus, I believe that humans are not the baddest thing out in the universe, so we better watch out.He finds an ancient computer that creates him into a superhero, where he battles with the Primordus, eventually destroys them. In the process his execution ship goes into a black hole, fluke it travels into a series worm holes, and finally ends up on Earth. On Earth some people help him, and others want to destroy him, but overall, he rids planet Earth of the Primordus, including another deadly enemy that they released in order to get an last word I hope that you enjoy The Chronicles of Dark Matter Man.

Only For the Brave at Heart is a collection of essays about discrimination and race.

The Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem, and they didn't start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicago's South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation.

You should never judge a person without walking a mile in their shoes, and this book invites you to try on a 400-year-old fed-up pair of black ones. This book unapologetically counteracts the "angry black man" stereotype through historical truths, witty rhymes, and personal experiences from the author's life and travels as a black man searching for a way to the promised land.

#1 New York Times bestseller Mike Lupica makes his return to the basketball court! There's a reason teammates call him "True." Because for basketball phenom Drew Robinson, there is nothing more true than his talent on the court. It's the kind that comes along once in a generation and is loaded with perks--and with problems. Before long, True buys in to his own hype, much to the chagrin of his mother, who wants to keep her boy's head grounded--and suddenly trouble has a way of finding him. That is, until a washed-up former playground legend steps back onto the court and takes True under his wing.

Can a date for hire become the love of a lifetime?When Emma Sinclair's younger sister announces her engagement, Emma is determined not to face the wedding alone. With a plan to hire a plus one, she's ready to find the perfect date. Carlos Gonzalez dreams of leaving his firefighter days behind to open a custom body shop. To make his dream a reality, he moonlights as a date for hire, offering companionship with no strings attached. When Emma hires Carlos to be her wedding date, their connection is electric. Amid the celebration, they discover a deeper bond. But Carlos faces the ultimate challenge-proving that his feelings for Emma are authentic and not just part of the job. Falling For Her Fake Wedding Date is book one in the Firefighters of Orange Valley series. This is a Christian Contemporary Romance with strong faith themes.Tropes:Fake datingDate for HireClass WarfareForbidden RomanceFirefighter

Discover the captivating world of Urban Tales, where the pulse of city life beats through the pages. These tales are a reflection of the humanity that surrounds us, a celebration of our humor, our loves, our desires, and our secret rendezvous. Only in our urban landscapes could you learn tipping over on the down-low becomes an art form. In these stories, you'll journey through both the long and the short, the gritty and the heart-touching. Characters come alive through their elegant voices and raw urban tongues, a vibrant fusion of culture and emotion. Brace yourself for the raw truth that might stir discomfort or even bring a tear to your eye, but one thing is for certain - it will never bore you. Urban Tales are an exploration of the human experience, where laughter and love exist alongside the poignant and profound, leaving you with thoughts that linger long after the last page is turned.

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.Spanning two hundred years-from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic-Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision and largely beyond white knowledge. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights.As her narrative moves from Georgia to Philadelphia, Florida to Chicago, Texas to Oakland, Kelley treats Black workers not just as laborers, or members of a class, or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered-to themselves, to their communities, and to a nation that denied that basic fact. Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather, a sharecropper named Solicitor, and her grandmother, Brunell, who worked for more than a decade as a domestic maid, Kelley captures, in intimate detail, how generation after generation of labor was required to improve, and at times maintain, her family's status. Yet her family, like so many others, was always animated by a vision of a better future. The church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as Kelley suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes can be the same today. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future.

This reissue of Donna Hill's In My Bedroom, about three unforgettable women and their explosive relationships, is specially priced at $9.99!Rayne Holland seems to have it all: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful five-year-old daughter, and a rapidly rising film career. What everyone doesn't know is that behind closed doors, the picture isn't so perfect. And in the recesses of Rayne's mind she harbors a dark past that even she in unaware of. Then tragedy strikes, and Rayne slowly discovers that the story of her life is just beginning and nothing and no one are as they seem. . .

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. The nation's highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in World War II.Drawing on newly uncovered military records and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern history have been overlooked. Members of the 320th and thousands of other African Americans were sent abroad to fight for liberties denied them at home. In England and throughout Europe, these soldiers discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that treated them as second-class citizens?experiences they carried back to America, fueling the budding civil rights movement.Hervieux offers a vivid account of the tension between racial politics and national service in wartime America, and a moving narrative of human bravery and perseverance in the face of injustice.

The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through first-person narratives of black students during the University of Virginia's era of incremental desegregation. The authors relate what life was like before enrolling, during their time at the University, and after graduation. In addition to these personal accounts, the volume includes a historical overview of African Americans at the University--from its earliest slaves and free black employees, through its first black applicant, student admission, graduate, and faculty appointments, on to its progress and challenges in the twenty-first century. Including essays from graduates of the schools of law, medicine, engineering, and education, The Key to the Door a candid and long-overdue account of African American experiences at the University of Virginia.

Psalm Rose has been out of college for a few years now. She has found the perfect balance between her family, friends and her career in Bali. Marriage is the last thing on her mind. The Rose family is known for connection making arranged marriages that only add to their wealth and status, so Psalm knows she won't be single forever. She doesn't mind the marriage as long as it doesn't disrupt the perfect life she's built for herself. Until, at her best friend's party, she meets a man named Soul. Soul graduated college three years ago, and instead of taking over the family tech business so his father can retire, he has spent the time becoming a celebrated artist in New York. Soul just wants to enjoy his youth which leads to bumping heads with his parents and family members home for the holidays. His mother is even hinting at marriage matches. Soul's friends take him to a party to take his mind off things. It's here he meets a woman named Psalm. While the week of Kwanzaa unfolds Psalm and Soul's interactions keep them questioning themselves. Was there room for love in their lives? Can they have it all? Pslam's mother's ambitions and Soul's father's demands drive a frustrating wedge between the potential soulmates. Will Psalm and Soul find romance this holiday season or will they be forced apart forever?

The plan was simple. One night. No commitment. No regrets. Single dad, Benjamin Jenkins Jr. learned the hard way that women can't be trusted. But the moment Mahogany Rowsey hits his radar, he's captivated and unable to resist her magnetic pull. Mahogany can spot a player a mile away, and she's managed to dodge every single one... until Ben. He charms her into a one-night fling that leaves her panting for more. But it won't happen again. She lives in Chicago. He lives in Cincinnati. Still, that doesn't stop her from wanting what she can't have. But when Ben shows up to bid on a project Mahogany is overseeing, what began as one night of passion becomes so much more. Can these two get on the same page long enough to turn one night into forever?

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond.

A deeply imaginative debut novel about a family in crisis.

This book is written in the fashion of a "chronicle" as a timeline of events regarding the development of chattel slavery from ancient times up to the adoption of the 14th amendment of the American Constitution. It also addresses "Lincoln's War". It is constructed based on the teachings of an 8th grade English teacher at Charleston High School in the late 1950's. She taught that in writing articles for the high school newspaper one should address five facts. They are "what happened, when did it happen, where did it happen, who was involved and who said what".

Through the Hibiscus Hedge tells of children who veer off course into sticky situations and amuse themselves by pushing boundaries, and the adults who outwit and surprise them. Set in the beautiful Jamaican countryside where trees grow in all shades of green, roosters crow fiercely and youngsters can fly over mountain ranges, this collection of short stories by Paulette A. Ramsay is woven together by themes of discovery, loss and the coming-of-age. Written in lyrical prose, Through the Hibiscus Hedge affirms the personhood of children that is observed in their refreshing curiosity and boldness.

Malachi Williams and Garcia Blanka may have taught Nikki Gunz how to be an apex predator, but now the student has surpassed the masters. Nikki lives by one rule and one rule only --- if you don't stand on loyalty you die --- as she leads the new cartel she forged in the streets of New York. However, in the pursuit of power she crosses the line by thinking she is untouchable. Nikki tries to acquire too much at one time and draws the attention of three different criminal organizations who demanded her blood. She finds herself stuck in an untenable situation and the only way out is death. Someone's.With the authorities close to dismantling her cartel and putting her behind bars, Nikki is forced to use every ounce of her street smarts to go toe to toe with them, but the question is will that be enough to keep her out of cuffs? History has proven that no matter who you are you can be killed. Do those who oppose Nikki have enough cunning to kill her and take down the BLACK DIAMOND CARTEL once and for all? Or will Nikki Bandz prove that she truly can't be touched.