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Aug.25.2012 New YA Fantasy Novel Explores Faith, Disillusionment and Innocence The Nameless Prince is a beautifully-crafted debut YA novel about faith, disillusionment and innocence. Ten-year old Seth Bauman lives in the gang-ravaged streets of Silver Lake. Abandoned by his mother right after his birth, he shares a very dysfunctional and loveless home with his mean...	Apr.25.2012 Book Review: Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe is a short novel that reads like a memoir and that will appeal to those interested in black American history and the dynamics of poor black American families from the early 1800s to the 1960s. The story begins...
Sep.20.2011 Every Ethnic Group Has Another Group Who Hates Them Everyone belongs to a variety of “groups”. Whether it be the color of your skin group, the territory group (where your people hail from) what clothes you wear or what music you choose to listen to and especially what your spiritual beliefs are. We are all in a group (or groups) and moving in...	Jul.19.2010 Interview with Reymundo Sanchez, co-author of Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen Reymundo Sanchez is the pseudonym of a former Latin King who no longer lives in Chicago. He is the author of My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King, Once a King, Always a King, Latin King: Una vida sangrienta, and the latest Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen, published by Chicago...
Jan.21.2010 Pt. V A Dull and Painful Day Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Andrew Jenski, that is – I, was just so. It was not stupid, in itself, to agree to the FBI agent, Mr. Holda buying me lunch, while Lt. Steve Patrón flew away the now officially impounded Kamov Ka-52 . Agent Holda and I went to Paul Revere's...	Jul.03.2009 Crime Wars by Paul Williams Crime Wars is a true crime book from newspaper journalist Paul Williams. It is published by Merlin Publishers and its ISBN is 190358230. This award winning journalist has brought us Gangland, Crime Lords and The Untouchables. His books are all the same well written and brilliantly investigated and...
May.06.2009 LitPark Interview with Lac Su Lac Su left his homeland of Vietnam under gunfire, and at age five, began his life in America in an apartment teeming with drugs and prostitutes. His memoir, I LOVE YOUS ARE FOR WHITE PEOPLE, tells the story of his search for a sense of worth and belonging from a violent father and local gangs. It’...	Oct.24.2008 What is Really Behind the Recent Brutal Beatings of Vulnerable Adult in Minnesota? The recent violent beating, burning and dragging of a young cognitively impaired adult stuns us. Does it stun us enough to understand and take action? The young Lakeville, Minnesota man who was beaten and burned, lost sight in one eye and is now bleeding internally will be physically scarred...
Jan.20.2008 Darkness and Light “As human beings, we all have one foot in light, and one foot in darkness,” Spoon Jackson wrote. I’ve thought a great deal about Spoon’s words this week as I read the details of the civil gang injunction proposed for San Francisco’s Western Addition. A few of the 44 names on that list are familiar...