There's no escape for Trey. A basketball scholarship at St. Johns next year but if it's not enough just having to deal with the streets of Brooklyn but with moms being strung out and both his brothers slinging things can't be much worse at home. How many star athletes have to sleep with all their valuables under their pillow so they won't be stolen? And then there's Ebony, a senior in high school, and the oldest of eleven children with no skills and no way to feed them other than her drop dead good looks. But is this a viable way to take care of them? Boxing was Chaz' savior and saved him...

Yeah. I was born here but that don't mean that I got to necessarily like it. Lot of people was born here in Harlem but that don't mean that they has to like the rats and the roaches and other vermin that run around here scavenging and living offa the good folks that has to reside here. And I ain't intending on just settling in and become a victim of these here streets. As long as I can breathe I'm gonna do whatever I can to pick myself up and make my plight better. I don't care what it takes. But the one thing I do know is God blessed me by giving me this life and even though I may not be as...

Martin Luther King Jr. preached equality and my parents were firm believers in his teachings. He preached integration, fair housing and a host of other things. America was in the midst of a civil rights movement and my parents championed his ideals and were on the front lines. We moved from Harlem to Queens and were on the front lines of this movement. I was four at the time and was thrust into what is now known as the 'Civil Rights Movement'. It was a glorious time for African Americans. It was a time for change. It was a time for upheaval. It was a time for America to finally embrace the...

In the manner of Nat Turner and John Brown, Andrew Jackson, a slave developed the council as a means of bringing some sense of order to the chaotic times surrounding the Civil War. This is the story of how a small group of Negro slaves sought to even the odds and level the playing field.

Included in this remarkable anthology of African American short stories is a rich, cultural mixture of the assortment of African American experiences we are confronted with in our daily lives. From the disenchantment of recent high school basketball phenom Malik Sorvino to Aunt Mattie's retirement which suddenly has her experiencing motherhood again for not one but five children at the ripe of old age of sixty. These remarkable stories so rich in our day-to-day experiences as Black folks are sure to make you laugh and cry as you go into each unique tale. Make sure you are fastened in safely...