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An alternately poignant and powerful autobiography, a riveting overcoming-the-odds memoir. A MUST READ! - Kam Williams, Book Reviewer - Baret News Syndicate. The story of an African American child and young teenager growing up in the real ghetto, the housing projects. Coming from... a dysfunctional and violent family where contrary to what poor Black people are always depicted as; there is no God, no church on Sunday, no marching with Martin Luther King, Jr., and no singing in the church choir. This is the story of tens of millions of African American children locked away, in the segregated, red lined ghettos and housing projects of America. Living in a bad environment, in horrific conditions, with bad parents, in bad schools, where death rides hard and is known by everybody. INTRODUCTION: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AMERICAN GHETTO BOY The screams and howls of centuries of terror, violence and brutality transcend time as you, the reader, are taken on a tremendously honest, epic journey from Africa to Western Europe to the Americas in this compelling, violent, and true story of two turbulent and distinct African American families of unbridled good and evil, both born and raised in the brutality and horror of American slavery, segregation and Jim Crow. The journey takes you all the way to the terrifying, vicious and savagely honest, invisible black ghetto world of a child, and then teenager, growing up in the Whittier Street Housing Projects, where the schools of hard knocks and real fucked up shit are taught, lived, and died in, side by side. I found out early on that this was not going to be an easy book to write. I wanted to write an autobiography about my early childhood and teen years and the horrific murderers, pimps, gangsters, drug dealers, drug addicts, rapists, child abusers and thieves, that I grew up with, lived with, called family, and write about in The Autobiography of an American Ghetto Boy. I soon realized that I could not write about me as an African Ameri
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A comprehensive reference on modeling written for and about the African-American model, this book covers such topics as finding an agency, planning a portfolio, plus size modeling, and children's modeling. Also includes a listing of leading black modeling and management agencies ...in the United States and internationally.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in the Studio brings you right on the scene from the formation of the group to their rocky road where you get first hand details of the successes, the producers, the engineers, the controversies; Frusciante's drug addiction, Slovak's death, the break ups, th...e tours, the mayhem and of course, the music. Show more Show less
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This outstanding and historic volume of students' letters accompanied with President Obama's responses, speeches, public statements, and quotations during his campaign, tenure as President-Elect, and his presidency is the most comprehensive collection of letters and responses eve...r assembled for a sitting president.
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LADY GAGA: BORN TO BE FREE-An Unauthorized Biography by Jake Brown. The fascinating story of Lady Gaga from her childhood to her escalation to the top of the music charts as an international phenomenon. Lady Gaga was born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986 in... Yonkers, New York. She attended New York University's Tisch School for the Arts but left to find creative expression. Lady Gaga was briefly signed by Def Jam Records, but was dropped just months later. In 2007, at the age of 20, Gaga began work at Interscope Records as a songwriter for other artists on the label, including Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, and The Pussycat Dolls until being discovered by R&B singer Akon, who signed her to his label under the Interscope umbrella, Kon Live. Through 2007 and 2008, Gaga wrote and recorded her debut album, The Fame. The record was received positive reviews and popular success, and the single Poker Face topped charts in almost every category, in almost every country. LADY GAGA: BORN TO BE FREE-An Unauthorized Biography chapters include: Gaga from Birth, 76 Stanton Street, F.A.M.E, Little Monsters, The Fame Monster E.P., Born This Way, Gaga Takes Over the World, Life as a Fashion Show, ARTPOP and 204 and Beyond.
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