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Blacka

Author : Owen Ifill
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665700270
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Blacka written by Owen Ifill and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You have come,” he said, and I knew there and then that I was home. I never went back to my father’s house, and he never came to look for me. And I knew that he knew where I was. It is a sweltering day in a village in Guyana when a fourteen-year-old decides to journey to meet his grandfather, Blacka, for the first time. As he arrives in Buxton, the teen already knows that Blacka has been the source of his attorney father’s misery about his blackness for what seems an eternity. But it is not until the grandson and grandfather finally meet for the first time that the teen realizes he has arrived home. In a collection of short tales shared in rap-like verse, Owen Ifill highlights the rhythms of a Guyana village as a teenager is mentored by his grandfather, Blacka, while learning lessons, confronting his fears, developing into his own person, and attempting to successfully navigate through a variety of challenges. Blacka is a volume of rhythmically told stories that leads others down an imaginative path as a young man immerses himself in the culture of a village in Guyana.

Jamaican Gangs of New York

Author : Desmond Skyers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543487416
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Jamaican Gangs of New York written by Desmond Skyers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a better life, these new migrants arrived in New York City from the poverty-stricken and violent ghetto of Western Kingston, Jamaica. Predisposed to violence and experienced in the life of the street, they aged between twenty and thirty-five. They were different from all those that came before them from this exotic island. With the potential for a drug sale at any time, these new arrivals squared-off against one another in the streets of New York City, fighting for control of the illicit yet lucrative cocaine and crack market. From Brooklyn to Queens, Manhattan to the Bronx, the city was divided into three gang strongholds, basically no-go areas. Joe Dog and the Loyalist posse took control of South Jamaica, Queens; Blacka and the Raiders posse control Brooklyn; and Fowl and the Centralist posse controlled the Bronx. In addition to the Jamaicans, there were two black American gangs, one came out of Brooklyn and the other from Queens. When they crossed paths with the Jamaicans, it was war. Then there was the Gem Girls. This was a gang of girls from western Kingston led by a light-skinned lesbian named Patsy. These girls were as ruthless as their male Jamaican counterpart. The desire for instant gratification and material satisfaction was impetus for the violence and killings that followed. None dared to stand in their way. This violence caught the attention of the newly elected mayor Jack Jackson, who established a gang task force, headed up by a no-nonsense former Vietnam veteran named Todd Sullivan. On Todds first day on the job, he shook his head and swore. These fucking Jamaican posses are turning our city into a fucking killing zone. We are going to send every fucking one of them to prison.

Traveling Black

Author : Mia Bay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067425869X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Black written by Mia Bay and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

High Risks

Author : Adrian "Ox" Mendez
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1645565831
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book High Risks written by Adrian "Ox" Mendez and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will this murderous duo go to exact their revenge? They laugh . . . They joke . . . But these boys don’t play. When things get to a point where words no longer matter and action is the only thing left to be delivered, Reef and Dummy have built a reputation for bringing agonizing resolutions to problems at hand. They set their sights on a man who allegedly betrayed their current employer, putting their noses to the ground to avenge the act of treason. When their prey goes into hiding like a snake in the grass, the sadistic Jamaican duo ignites a bonfire of destruction that forces him to come out of hiding. Will this snake merely slither away when things get past the point of no return, or bear his fangs and retaliate against his persistent predators? Many can play, but only a few can win when playing the deadly game of High Risks . . .

Oversight Hearing on Interagency Cooperation

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oversight Hearing on Interagency Cooperation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

They Call Me Law

Author : Kelly Marie
Publisher : Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648542042
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book They Call Me Law written by Kelly Marie and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ky-mani "Law" Parker; the sexy retired King of the streets of Chicago. He can have any woman he wants and women want nothing more than to be his queen; especially his accidental baby momma, Monae. The women he has encountered do not even begin to qualify until he meets Honey. Honey Unique Johnson is in a loveless five-year relationship with her boyfriend Jerome. They had the perfect, straight life together until he became a man of the streets. The sudden change and the street life is too much for Honey and she walks away. But then she meets Ky-mani and all is great until she finds out that he is none other than Law, someone who Honey has learned to fear. Can she look past the king of the streets and see the man inside? Can she overlook who he is, when she left her boyfriend for being a street nigga? Can Ky-mani find a way to hold on to the one woman he can't live without? Find out as you follow this unlikely couple as they battle with finding a way to merge their two different worlds together whilst facing off with snakes, family secrets, lies and betrayal.

Farewell to Conflict

Author : Rudolph A. Peart
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1681811642
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Conflict written by Rudolph A. Peart and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farewell to Conflict provides nonstop action in a crime novel that takes place in balmy Jamaica. Larry Lawless was born and raised in the ghetto. In high school he became a track star and met his girlfriend, Karen la Beach, who had a middle class upbringing. After graduating from university, Larry moves to Ocho Rios to set up a woodworking business. There he hopes to locate his mother’s relatives, since he never knew any other family than his mother. As he grapples with building his business, he is diverted by the murder of Karen’s uncle, as well as a woman found naked and spread-eagled with her wrists and ankles bound to the bedposts in her uncle’s home. Karen wants Larry to help her conduct their own investigation of the crime. Besides murder, extortionists target Larry’s business, wanting a share of the profits. Will the couple be able to solve the murders, stop the extortion and bid Farewell to Conflict? Or will there be a bloody closure?

The Geology of the Carboniferous Limestone, Yoredale Rocks, and Millstone Grit of North Derbyshire

Author : Alexander Henry Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geology of the Carboniferous Limestone, Yoredale Rocks, and Millstone Grit of North Derbyshire written by Alexander Henry Green and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Smuggler

Author : Andrew Pritchard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845968638
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Urban Smuggler written by Andrew Pritchard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Smuggler chronicles the rollicking life story of one of the most prolific smugglers of our time. After leaving school at 14, Andrew Pritchard started out selling weed at house parties before moving on to run some of the biggest warehouse raves of the acid-house era. The money began to roll in, but with it came trouble, and when someone was murdered at one of his parties he was forced to go on the run to Jamaica. It was there that Pritchard learned the tricks of the smuggling trade, and with corrupt UK Customs officers in his pocket it seemed that nothing could go wrong. But then someone in his network used his supply chain to start shifting industrial amounts of cocaine. When he went to meet a shipment of counterfeit cigars, he was seized by a Customs task force and arrested when the goods turned out to be half a ton of premium-grade cocaine. Following two controversial trials, Pritchard was acquitted after eighteen months on remand. In Urban Smuggler, he reveals just how easy it can be to import shiploads of contraband into the UK and exposes the corruption within the law-enforcement agencies tasked to tackle this kind of crime. Here, then, is the inside story of how to become an 'urban smuggler'.

Shades of Black

Author : Sandra L. Pinkney
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
ISBN 13 : 9780439802512
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Black written by Sandra L. Pinkney and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children. On board pages.

Iron Balloons

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781933354057
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Iron Balloons written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica's literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival's Extended Family.

Soil Survey of Lander County, Nevada, North Part

Author : Carole E. Jett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Soil Survey of Lander County, Nevada, North Part written by Carole E. Jett and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Research Reports

Author : United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Reports written by United States. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aint No Love in the Bean

Author : Lefty
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496908538
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Aint No Love in the Bean written by Lefty and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in a life of crime in the streets of Boston, on Christmas Eve 1992, Troy Jenkins, an upcoming drug lord with a notorious reputation, and his wife, Karen Jenkins, are murdered by Troys main comrade, Crook, over greed and jealousy, leaving his son, Jerome Jenkins, shell-shocked. News spread quickly about the murders, causing turmoil in the streets, and a lot of people sought revenge. Having close relations to Troys father, Roy Barros, a rising detective in the Boston police force, is determined to find the perpetrator, only to find himself caught in the cross fire. Angel, Troys protg, slowly starts to put the pieces together about his mentors death but decides to take revenge into his own hands before revealing to Jerome who took his parents off the face of the earth. He soon finds out Crook is a different force of nature. Jerome grows into a man only to follow into his fathers footsteps with one goal in life: to kill the people responsible for the loss of his parents. Along his way, he finds love with a beautiful young lady named Mercedes, and he decides to introduce her to his guardians only to later find out Mercedes is the daughter of Crook! Which complicates the hell out of the situation because he is still unaware that Crook took his parents away from him. Trapped in a triangle, Jerome is forced to choose between hurting the only person he loves and avenging the deaths of the only bloodline he once had. Running out of time, Angel is forced to act sooner then he thought, but his plans backfire on him only to cost him his own life. An all-out war breaks out in this city, causing the truth and blood to spill on the streets of Boston.

America's Children

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book America's Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yardie

Author : Victor Headley
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529000815
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Yardie written by Victor Headley and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major film directed by Idris Elba, Yardie by Victor Headley shines a light on the brutal underworld of 90s London gang culture. At Heathrow Airport’s busy immigration desk, a newly arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking . . . By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business – for himself – as the Front Line’s newest don. But D’s treachery will never be forgotten – or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets: Find D. Find the merchandise. And make him pay for his sins . . .

6-0 Kings

Author : Derrick Gibson
Publisher : B. T. Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 6-0 Kings written by Derrick Gibson and published by B. T. Books. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6-0 Kings, Brass Brothers is book one in the 6-0 Kings Series. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is known as a rough and tough city. Within its mean streets, there is an area called Southwest Philly. What’s more notorious is the infamous, treacherous, and well renowned neighborhood centered around the street corner of 60th and Kingsessing, better known as 60th Street. The hood was a mixed melting pot in the 1980’s of black, whites, Jamaicans, dealers, and dope fiends. There where multiple kingpins and street legends who wrote their names in the concrete, stars on a ghetto walk of fame. 6-O Kings, Brass Brothers is a story of one the 6-O kings rise and fall. The tale is action packed: full of blood, guts, gore, love and romance. You will find yourself helplessly turning the pages as you are sure to enjoy the thug life, lessons, tragedies, and joys. You will be entertained as you follow this author’s tales. The protagonist navigates his way, climbs up in the drug game ranks, in the streets of Philly using brute force and wisdom to ultimately become a street legend boss and a 6-O king in his own right as Deidrick Dobbins A.K.A. Fats.