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The African American Book of Values by Steven Barboza (Author) (Hardcover - Sep 15, 1998) In this massive anthology, Steven Barboza reveals the story of the African American as largely a story of good triumphing over evil, in a myriad of forms. "This book," he writes, "can give children, families, teachers and friends glimpses of values in action and provide moral examples that any reader can recognize." Culled from many short-story and novel excerpts, poems, and essays, the collection is divided into three distinct headings. "The Book of Self-Mastery" examines self-discipline, courage, honesty, self-esteem, work, tenacity, creativity, and faith through texts such as Ralph Ellison's "Little Man at Chehaw Station," historian Charles Blockson's heroic "The Ballad of the Underground Railroad," and Alain Locke's philosophical battle cry of the Harlem Renaissance, "The New Negro." Charles Chesnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," James Weldon Johnson's stereotype-smashing look at Harlem in "Black Manhattan," and Martin Luther King's immortal "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" illuminate many of the themes in "The Book of Empathy," including family, community and responsibility.

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8 Ball Chicks by Gini Sikes (Author)

Always Running: LA Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez

Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards

Do or Die by Leon Bing (Author)

Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing-A PEN American Center Prize Anthology by Bell Gale Chevigny (Author)

East Side Stories: Gang Life in East LA by Joseph Rodriguez (Photographer), Ruben Martinez (Contributor), Luis J. Rodriguez (Contributor)

Inside Rikers : Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony by Jennifer Wynn (Author)

Life in Prison by Stanley 'Tookie' Williams, Stanley Williams, Barbara Cottman Becnel (Contributor) (Paperback - February 2001)

Monster : Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, The by Sanyika Shakur, Monster Kody Scott ~ Hardcover, Library Binding ~ Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing bestseller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000 copies in print in the United States alone. After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name 'Monster' for committing acts of brutality and violence that repulsed even his fellow gang members. When the inevitable jail term confined him to a maximum-security cell, a complete political and personal transformation followed: from Monster to Sanyika Shakur, black nationalist, member of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, and crusader against the causes of gangsterism. In a document that has been compared to The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Shakur makes palpable the despair and decay of America's inner cities and gives eloquent voice to one aspect of the black ghetto experience today.

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez, Rey Sanchez

Newjack : Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover (Author)

Prison Etiquette by Holley R. Cantine (Editor), et al

The African-American Odyssey, Combined (2nd Edition) by Darlene Clark Hine (Author), et al (Hardcover)

The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison by Robert Ellis Gordon in Books

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Beef ~ DVD ~ Featuring 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Nas, DMX, Snoop Dog, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Ja Rule, Mack 10, Common, Cypress Hill, Russell Simmons, NWA, and legendary battlers KRS- One, MC Chan, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee and more! Narrated by Ving Rhames.

C-Walk - It's a Way of Livin' ~ DVD ~ Straight off the streets of South Central L.A., CJ Mac brings you a documentary about a gang ritual that has become a popular dance craze. Hear the opinions from the artists who made the C-Walk mainstream through music videos and live performances, and meet the original Crip gang members who started the walk. Is it a dance... or a gang ritual? You decide! Features Snoop Dogg,WC,Ice-T, Kurupt, Ras Kass, Malik Yoba, Warren G and Jonathan Davis.

Juice ~ DVD ~ Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain , Samuel L. Jackson, George Gore II, Queen Latifah, Flex Alexander, LaTanya Richardson, Donald Faison, Ed Lover, Doctor Dré, Fab Five Freddy, Anthony 'Treach' Criss

Menace II Society ~ DVD ~ Tyrin Turner

Paid in Full ~ DVD ~ Wood Harris

Welcome to Death Row ~ DVD ~ Welcome to Death Row tells the unauthorized history of the most notorious rap label ever. And what a story it is--the rise and fall of Death Row and its power-hungry CEO, Marion 'Suge' Knight, makes The Godfather look like a bedtime story. The film traces the entire controversial history of the label and the impact it had on not only the music industry but American culture. The film also details the relationship between Death Row and its biggest star, Tupac Shakur, and the effect that Shakur's sudden death in a 1996 drive-by shooting had on the label's fortunes (a story told in greater depth in Thug Immortal).

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The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley (Author)

The Tupac Shakur Collection by Tupac Shakur in Books

Undoing Time: American Prisoners in Their Own Words by Jeff Evans (Editor), Jimmy Santiago Baca in Books (Foreword)

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish by JIMMY A. LERNER (Author) In-Print Editions: Paperback | e-book (Microsoft Reader) | e-book (Adobe Reader)

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