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FLINT #6: A KING IS BORN by Treasure Hernandez
November 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The love story with a hood flavor is back, but there is no happy ending for Halleigh and Malek. Their situation has just taken a turn for the worse. Halleigh has been kidnapped by Malek’s adversary, who’s holding her for ransom. Malek only has 72 hours to save her, or she will be gone forever. With the help of Scratch, a seasoned junkie with a soft spot for Halleigh, Malek terrorizes the city to get back his true love back. Will Halleigh make it out alive, or will she fall victim to the game? Treasure Hernandez brings you an action packed, suspenseful story that will have you wanting... [Read the full story]
Interviews
Audio Interview with Wahida Clark
September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
Listen to this audio interview with urban fiction author Wahida Clark. In it, she discusses her current book, Thug Lovin’, and some very interesting business advice that she received in prison. In addition to sharing stories about incarceration and writing, Ms. Clark also share how she give back to the community with Prodigal Sons and Daughters and her hopes for the future. Read More →
News
Teri Woods Sues NY Club (NY Daily News)
October 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
It was supposed to be a big night for top urban fiction author Teri Woods, who had invited 175 people to party at a trendy SoHo nightclub to celebrate her new book. But Woods ended up in tears when she found almost her entire guestlist being kept outside Greenhouse’s notorious velvet rope. Now a $1 billion class-action suit says the partygoers were denied entry because they were black. Read more… Read More →
Resources
The Word on Street Lit – October (Library Journal)
October 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This month’s street lit picks focus on characters who struggle to redeem their pasts. While these young men and women may make bad choices, they do take the time and energy and have the faith to turn their lives around. Another important theme recurring in urban fiction is family support. As we prepare for the holiday season, the titles below will remind readers of how family, friends, and faith can play important roles in life’s successes as well as in recovering from its failures. Read More… The Word on Street Lit is reprinted with permission of Library Journal. Read More →
Fiction
CAKE by D
It’s less than six months after the events of Got and our nameless narrator has vanished off the Brooklyn grid only to end up in Atlanta, where he now lives with his ambitious but somewhat dim-witted cousin Durante. Flush with cash from the unfortunate events that forced him out of Brooklyn, he has enrolled in an...
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GOT by D
There’s a young man living in the infamous Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. He is an orphaned college student trying to get through his sophomore year at age twenty-three, years behind the traditional undergraduates. His two best friends, Will and Chief, are an ex-drug dealer and a computer hacker. And his boss,...
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DEADLY REIGNS by Teri Woods
Damian Reigns, a Harvard educated business man with GQ looks runs the Reigns family enterprise worth billions of dollars. His brother, Dante Reigns, a Princeton graduate with a degree in psychology is a lethal weapon and ruthlessly protects the family business at any expense. Their sister, Princess Reigns, is calculating,...
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SINGLE WITH BENEFITS by Relentless Aaron
Shawn thinks he has the ultimate woman: Venus is sexy like an Essence model, hood as any Bronx girl, and sly as a fox. Too bad he doesn’t see her double cross before she strips him of all his belongings. Fortunately, Shawn is a hard worker, and his boss has a place for him to stay – convenient enough for her to...
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BETRAYED by David Givens
Darrell Jenkins a.k.a. “The Sandman” is known as a legend on the streets of Waterloo, Iowa, experiencing success on both sides of the law. However, out of all the things Darrell has accomplished, love is the one thing that has eluded him. Enter Sherrice Valdez, and exotic beauty who is down on her luck. Sparks...
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MVP by Jihad
MVP is the story of two best friends and business partners. Jonathon Parker and Coltrane Jones have a history. The best friends and business partners have been involved in everything from murder to blackmail, whatever it took to rise they did. Now they’re sitting on top of the world, heading up the two most infamous...
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PREACHER MAN BLUES by Jihad
As kids, Terrell “TJ” Money and Percival “PC” Turner had one goal – become big-time preachers. But once they accomplish that goal, heading up One World Faith; the largest church in the Southeast, the best friends battle on just how they should be leading their flock. TJ is living up to his name and looking...
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TREACHEROUS by Rayn
Tabreen is a sexy young woman with a carefree spirit. She is surrounded by a circle of friends who she feels are somewhat constant in her life, until she is betrayed by her best friend, Kileena, who she’s known since childhood. Unforeseen to Tabreen, Kileena has become raged with jealousy and is plotting to destroy...
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Interviews
Audio Interview with Wahida Clark
Listen to this audio interview with urban fiction author Wahida Clark. In it, she discusses her current book, Thug Lovin’, and some very...
Tell us a little about yourself. How did you get started writing? I was born and raised in Dallas and discovered a passion for writing as a...
Tell me a little about yourself. How did you get started writing? I was moved to write because of the stories that were told through hip-hop...
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Nonfiction
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley
If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet...
Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change by Marcella Runell Hall
Three award-winning activists and novelists-Black Artemis, E-Fierce, and J-Love, join social justice educator Marcella Runell Hall and a diverse...
STREET LEGENDS by Seth Ferranti
In a time where the world is infatuated by the streets, learn firsthand what a trye hustler is – and the price they pay for the crown. This...
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