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Book Synopsis Brothers, Black and Poor by : Sylvester Monroe
Download or read book Brothers, Black and Poor written by Sylvester Monroe and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Newsweek book." Presents a group portrait of the author's boyhood friends growing up in a dangerous Chicago housing project.
Book Synopsis Black Brothers, Inc by : Sean Patrick Griffin
Download or read book Black Brothers, Inc written by Sean Patrick Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2005, a prominent and politically influential Muslim cleric, Imam Shamsud-din Ali, became the latest person convicted in a massive federal corruption probe in Philadelphia. As the revelations emanating from the probe continue, a critically acclaimed author and leading authority on organized crime exposes for the very first time the disturbing contemporary and historical ties between Ali, the city's notorious Black Mafia, and the sweeping federal probe. The Black Mafia was one of the bloodiest crime syndicates in modern US history. From its roots in Philadelphia's ghettos in the 1960's, it grew from a rabble of street toughs to a disciplined, ruthless organization based on fear and intimidation with links across the Eastern Seaboard. Known in its "legitimate" guise as Black Brothers, Inc., it held regular meetings, appointed investigators, treasurers and enforcers, and controlled drug dealing, loan-sharking, numbers rackets, armed robbery and extortion. Its ferocious crews of gunmen grew around burly founder Sam Christian, the most feared man on Philly's streets. They developed close ties with the influential Nation of Islam and soon were executing rivals, extorting bookies connected to the city's powerful Cosa Nostra crew, and cowing local gangs. The Black Mafia was responsible for over forty killings, the most chilling being the 1973 massacre of two adults and five children in Washington, D.C. Despite the arrests that followed, they continued their rampage, exploiting their ties to prominent lawyers and civil rights leaders. A heavy round of convictions and sentences in the 1980's shattered their strength â" only for the crack-dealing Junior Black Mafia to emerge in their wake. Researched with scores of interviews and unique access to informant logs, witness statements, wiretaps and secret FBI files, Black Brothers, Inc. is the most detailed account ever of an African-American organized crime mob, and a landmark investigation into the modern urban underworld. "Griffin did extensive research and backs up his claims carefully...If you're a crime buff, a history lover, or if you just want something fascinating to read, it's a book you can't refuse."---Terri Schlichenmeyer, syndicated reviewer and host of "The BookWormSez" "A gripping story...Griffin richly documents the Black Mafia's organization, outreach and over-the-top badness." --Joseph N. DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book Brothers Black written by Blue Saffire and published by Perceptive Illusions. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers Black: Wyatt the Heartbreaker Book 1 in Brothers Black Series I don't just love my woman, I protect her, I provide for her, I would die for her. Nellie walked into my life when I needed her most. Now I'm not willing to let her go. I will destroy anyone that even thinks of harming my woman. Nellie is nothing like the women I used to bring pleasure to. Oh Yes, I bring pleasure on levels that will numb your mind for months. When I lay eyes on Nellie, I know I want to bring her and only her that pleasure. I just need her to see past my past. I'm the oldest of seven hardheaded brothers. Some call me the ring leader, some call me the voice of reason, and everyone knows me as the heartbreaker. Only I never wanted her to know that. Now I'll just have to show her that I can heal a heart much better than I can break one because I want hers. I am running from my past. I never thought that I would run right into the arms of freaking Wyatt Black. I watched him break hearts from afar. The last thing I need is to be next. But like I said this is Wyatt freaking Black, the six foot three, golden eyed breathing definition of sexy. Women line up to get their hearts broken by him. So really how am I supposed to resist him? I'll give in and when I do, I'll find that he is more than what I bargained for in so many ways. I mean in every way imaginable. If sex were a weapon Wyatt Black would be lethal. Who I am kidding Wyatt is lethal, especially when it comes to me. When the past comes to haunt us, Wyatt will always protect me, without thought, without question. Wyatt isn't a heartbreaker, he is my heart healer. Find out what happened to lead to the text message Nathan Briggs received at his wedding, in Legally Bound 3. *This is Book 1 in the Brothers Black Series a spin-off from the bestselling Legally Bound Series placed after book 3 in the Legally Bound Series. While you can read this book as a standalone, it will enhance the read to read the Legally Bound Series first. Blue Saffire's books are written to weave, loop and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience. **This book has strong language and sexual content. This Book is for Mature Readers 18+ ***To keep up with release dates sign up for the mailing list at www.bluesaffire.com
Book Synopsis The Brothers K by : David James Duncan
Download or read book The Brothers K written by David James Duncan and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years. Praise for The Brothers K “The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”—The New York Times Book Review “Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”—Los Angeles Times “This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”—USA Today “Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”—The Washington Post Book World “Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”—Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Brothers Black 2 written by Blue Saffire and published by Perceptive Illusions. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm the giant that they should've left sleeping. Touch my family that's a problem, touch my woman that's your life. That woman has been my world since we were kids. I'm already missing a few screws, but I become unhinged when someone mentions Rebecca "Bean" Lockhart's life. My beast is awake and someone is about to go to sleep. I'm the wrong Black to F@$k with.I've love Noah Black all my life. He taught me to stand up for myself. He showed me what I was missing. Now someone wants to take that from me. Most important thing Noah ever taught me...never let anyone take what's yours. Click, click.... somebody's bout to die.
Download or read book Truevine written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Book Synopsis Black Blood Brothers by : Nicole von Germeten
Download or read book Black Blood Brothers written by Nicole von Germeten and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the African contribution to Mexican culture, this book shows how religious brotherhoods in New Spain both preserved a distinctive African identity and helped facilitate Afro-Mexican integration into colonial society. Called confraternities, these groups provided social connections, charity, and status for Africans and their descendants for over two centuries. Often organized by African women and dedicated to popular European and African saints, the confraternities enjoyed prestige in the Baroque religious milieu of 17th-century New Spain. One group, founded by Africans called Zapes, preserved their ethnic identity for decades even after they were enslaved and brought to the Americas. Despite ongoing legal divisions and racial hierarchies, by the end of the colonial era many descendants from African slaves had achieved a degree of status that enabled them to move up the social ladder in Hispanic society. Von Germeten reveals details of the organization and practices of more than 60 Afro-Mexican brotherhoods and examines changes in the social, family, and religious lives of their members. She presents the stories of individual Africans and their descendants--including many African women and the famous Baroque artist Juan Correa--almost entirely from evidence they themselves generated. Moving the historical focus away from negative stereotypes that have persisted for almost 500 years, this study is the first in English to deal with Afro-Mexican religious organizations.
Book Synopsis Brothers and Strangers by : Ibrahim Sundiata
Download or read book Brothers and Strangers written by Ibrahim Sundiata and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey—convinced that freedom from oppression was not possible for blacks in the Americas—led the last great African American emigrationist movement. His U.S.-based Universal Negro Improvement Association worked with the Liberian government to create a homeland for African Americans. Ibrahim Sundiata explores the paradox at the core of this project: Liberia, the chosen destination, was itself racked by class and ethnic divisions and—like other nations in colonial Africa—marred by labor abuse. In an account based on extensive archival research, including work in the Liberian National Archives, Sundiata explains how Garvey’s plan collapsed when faced with opposition from the Liberian elite, opposition that belied his vision of a unified Black World. In 1930 the League of Nations investigated labor conditions and, damningly, the United States, land of lynching and Jim Crow, accused Liberia of promoting “conditions analogous to slavery.” Subsequently various plans were put forward for a League Mandate or an American administration to put down slavery and “modernize” the country. Threatened with a loss of its independence, the Liberian government turned to its “brothers beyond the sea” for support. A varied group of white and black anti-imperialists, among them W. E. B. Du Bois, took up the country’s cause. In revealing the struggle of conscience that bedeviled many in the black world in the past, Sundiata casts light on a human rights predicament which, he points out, continues in twenty-first-century African nations as disparate as Sudan, Mauritania, and the Ivory Coast.
Book Synopsis When a Heart Turns Rock Solid by : Timothy Black
Download or read book When a Heart Turns Rock Solid written by Timothy Black and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.
Book Synopsis Souls of My Brothers by : Dawn Marie Daniels
Download or read book Souls of My Brothers written by Dawn Marie Daniels and published by Plume. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American men share their feelings, concerns, situations, and advice in an anthology that captures the African-American experience, covering such topics as spirituality, sex, family, money, and power.
Download or read book Brothers Black 7 written by Blue Saffire and published by Brothers Black. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Black 7: Johnathan The Fixer RoniI don't know my past, I've lost control of my future, but I have a bullet for my present. Nough said. Johnathan That's Roni, and that's about as much as you will get from her. When you get to know her, you understand why. From the moment our eyes connected, I knew I'd be the one to fix what was broken. It didn't matter that we were never supposed to see each other again. I couldn't stay away from her, and she learned to seek me out when she needed. Now... we're inseparable. She's the mother of my daughter and the soulmate I never thought I'd find. How the hell did we get here? I don't know. What I do know is that the past, present, and future have collided, and the woman I love is going to flatten everyone connected to what started this, and I'm going to be right there by her side while she does. Will we come out on the other side more damaged than we already are? Yeah, it's likely, but the real question is, can our love survive?*This a Novel in the Brothers Black Series a spinoff from the bestselling series Legally Bound Series that started it all. While you can read this book as a standalone, it will enhance the read to Blue's books in the provided book order. Blue Saffire's books are written to weave, loop, and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience. This is the read order for the best experience. Legally Bound 1Legally Bound 2: Against the LawLegally Bound 3: His LawPerfect For Me 1Hush 1: Family BusinessBallers 1: His GameBrothers Black 1: Wyatt the Heart BreakerLegally Bound 4: Allegations of LoveHush 2: Slow BurnLegally Bound 5.0: SamBallers 2: His Final PlayLegally Bound 5.1: Tasha Illegal DealingsBrothers Black 2: Noah the BeastLegally Bound 5.3 & 5.4Where the Pieces FallBrothers Black 3: Toby the Protector Brothers Black 4: Braxton the Charmer Brothers Black 5: Felix the Watch A Home for Christmas Be My Valentine Doctor Feel Good Wicked Prince Charmings Brothers Black 6: Ryan the Joker Brothers Black 7: Johnathan the Fixer **This book has strong language and sexual content. This Book is for Mature Readers 18+***To keep up with release dates sign up for the mailing list at www.bluesaffire.com
Book Synopsis The Black Brothers by : Lisa Tetzner
Download or read book The Black Brothers written by Lisa Tetzner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the 19th century, poor farmers from Ticino sold their children across the Swiss-Italian border to work as "living broomsticks" in the chimneys of Milan. Thirteen-year-old Giorgio's father had no choice but to sell his son; now Giorgio survives with the help of his friend Alfredo and their secret society, the Black Brothers.
Author :Jewell Parker Rhodes Publisher :Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :0316493813 Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (164 download)
Book Synopsis Black Brother, Black Brother by : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Download or read book Black Brother, Black Brother written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition. Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested. Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what. As Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest. Powerful and emotionally gripping, Black Brother, Black Brother is a careful examination of the school-to-prison pipeline and follows one boy's fight against racism and his empowering path to finding his voice.
Book Synopsis Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers by : Bruce A. Glasrud
Download or read book Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers written by Bruce A. Glasrud and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African American men were seldom permitted to join the United States armed forces. There had been times in early U.S. history when black and white men fought alongside one another; it was not uncommon for integrated units to take to battle in the Revolutionary War. But by the War of 1812, the United States had come to maintain what one writer called “a whitewashed army.” Yet despite that opposition, during the early 1800s, militia units made up of free black soldiers came together to aid the official military troops in combat. Many black Americans continued to serve in times of military need. Nearly 180,000 African Americans served in units of the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, and others, from states such as Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Missouri, and Kansas, participated in state militias organized to protect local populations from threats of Confederate invasion. As such, the Civil War was a turning point in the acceptance of black soldiers for national defense. By 1900, twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had accepted black men into some form of military service, usually as state militiamen—brothers to the “buffalo soldiers” of the regular army regiments, but American military men regardless. Little has been published about them, but Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers: Perspectives on the African American Militia and Volunteers, 1865–1919, offers insights into the varied experiences of black militia units in the post–Civil War period. The book includes eleven articles that focus either on “Black Participation in the Militia” or “Black Volunteer Units in the War with Spain.” The articles, collected and introduced by author and scholar Bruce A. Glasrud, provide an overview of the history of early black citizen-soldiers and offer criticism from prominent academics interested in that experience. Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers discusses a previously little-known aspect of the black military experience in U.S. history, while deliberating on the discrimination these men faced both within and outside the military. Chosen on the bases of scholarship, balance, and readability, these articles provide a rare composite picture of the black military man’s life during this period. Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers offers both a valuable introductory text for students of military studies and a solid source of material for African American historians.
Download or read book Bird Brother written by Rodney Stotts and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.
Download or read book Brothers Black 6 written by Blue Saffire and published by Perceptive Illusions. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING: THIS BOOK END IN A CLIFFHANGER. BOOK 7 IS SOON TO FOLLOW. Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 6: Ryan the Joker RyanI said I wouldn't be the one to fall the hardest. That's a lie. It seems those are surrounding me these days and I'm not with it. I hate them and that they're weaving their way through the future I'm trying to build with the girl that's stolen my heart. I have plans for us and our future. She says I'll ruin her life, but I'm here to enhance it. I'll teach her how to cultivate her desires, her pleasure... Yeah, I'm going to ruin something, but it's not her life. I'm going to smoke that innocence like a fat cigar and wear a smile while doing it. CarmenThe things that come out of Ryan's mouth are unpredictable and stunning, to say the least. Walk always? I was never going to, who am I kidding? He's like honey and I'm the silly bee that will fly through fire for a single taste. However, he has walked into my life at a pivotal time and not even I understand the walls that are crumbling. And now... I have one more secret to keep from my father. Lies Those secrets. She has them and her father has them and now I'm in the middle. I hate it and it's getting in the way of the one job I have. Keep her safe. They both better get it together. Her dad can fess up and Carmen will have to stand her ground. There are bigger things going on around us and I won't lose my girl because of these simple distractions. Will the lies be the end of us? Or will something greater than us all snatch all our promises?*This a Novel in the Brothers Black Series a spinoff from the bestselling series Legally Bound Series that started it all. While you can read this book as a standalone, it will enhance the read to Blue's books in the provided book order. Blue Saffire's books are written to weave, loop, and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience. This is the read order for the best experience. Legally Bound 1Legally Bound 2: Against the LawLegally Bound 3: His LawPerfect For Me 1Hush 1: Family BusinessBallers 1: His GameBrothers Black 1: Wyatt the Heart BreakerLegally Bound 4: Allegations of LoveHush 2: Slow BurnLegally Bound 5.0: SamBallers 2: His Final PlayLegally Bound 5.1: Tasha Illegal DealingsBrothers Black 2: Noah the BeastLegally Bound 5.3 & 5.4Where the Pieces FallBrothers Black 3: Toby the Protector Brothers Black 4: Braxton the Charmer Brothers Black 5: Felix the Watch A Home for Christmas Be My Valentine Doctor Feel Good Brothers Black 6: Ryan the Joker Brothers Black 7: Johnathan the Fixer Coming soon ...(Look for this next) **This book has strong language and sexual content. This Book is for Mature Readers 18+***To keep up with release dates sign up for the mailing list at www.bluesaffire.com
Download or read book Brothers Black 4 written by Blue Saffire and published by Perceptive Illusions. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning Author Blue Saffire presents Brothers Black 4: Braxton The Protector Book 4 in the Brothers Black Series I'll set fire to the motherfucking wind for her. That will never change. It's why I let her take me through the ringer. I understand her. I know what she needs. It's just at some point¿she's going to need to figure out what she needs more. To hide or to be who we really are. Either way, I'm going to bring a monster to his knees because it's what she needs most. I have nothing to promise anyone, though promises have been made. They both deserve better than what I can give them. Do I love them both? Yes, but one has my soul and they both have my loyalty. Before I can do right by either of them, I have demons to slay. I've wept over my losses long enough. This weeping flower still has thrones. He sees what I won't allow others to. She sees what no one else understands. We see the bloody fucking truth. Sometimes an eye for an eye is the only way to end one story to begin another. Sometimes you just need to Blackout. *This is Book 4 in the Brothers Black Series a spin-off from the bestselling, award winning, Legally Bound Series. While you can read this book as a standalone, it will enhance the read to Blue's books in the provided book order. Blue Saffire's books are written to weave, loop and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience.
