Big Mama S Little Black Jesus

Author : William Roosevelt Leggette
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468543223

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Big Mama's Little Black Jesus by William Roosevelt Leggette Pdf

Many books have been written about the Southern lifestyle during the 1930's through the 1940's, but sit back and lend your ear (eyes) to a personal account of how a young man grew up under these trying conditions. Not only were the conditions trying, but getting an education was bleak and almost impossible, not just due to the segregation, but from the internal conflicts among the families. See how the hand of God moved to help this family over-come hardships and calamities, but how He touched the life of this young man when he was determined to better himself, his sisters and brothers, mother and father and to make a life outside the Racial Southern expectations of young black men. These are issues that I experienced growing up as a black person in the South in the USA. I want my children and grandchildren to know the things I experienced and how I was able to overcome and make a better life for my family. Currently I am living in Southern California, and I have lived quite a long life. I am currently on the downside of being a septagenarian. Unfortunately, I have lost my eyesight due to a disease called diabetic retinopathy. I am dependent on my wife and my sister to assist me in getting this book completed. I have been trying to get the book finished for the past fifteen years. I hope this book gives insight to not only my family, but to all that would care to read it.

Author : Hakim Bellamy
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780826363176

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Commissions Y Corridos by Hakim Bellamy Pdf

The poems collected here insist that with the power to do right, people also have a responsibility to themselves, their loved ones, and complete strangers to be better and strive harder.

Author : Reba Dimandsalva
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462840311

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Little Red Riding Through the Hood by Reba Dimandsalva Pdf

Little Red riding through the hood is a terrifying walk on a broad path of anger, resentment, incest, pedophilia, fornication, adultery, backstabbing, drugs and lust. The portrait of sweet Little Chicago girl turned notorious. Being devoured by a satanic force that tears her life apart. And being saved by an Almighty God who was with her from the beginning to the end of hell and back. He saved her from the demonic forces that lied waiting to corrupt and devour and kill her.

Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501320354

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The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears by Lesley Brill Pdf

Stephen Frears has a career approaching over half-a-century, directing films of astonishing variety, beauty, and daring, and yet many often have trouble remembering his name. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears celebrates this great filmmaker, beginning with a short biography of Frears, general observations on unifying themes and styles in his oeuvre, and the characterization of his manner of directing. By focusing on 10 key films, Lesley Brill finds coherence in Frears' characteristic irony and in his concentration on many kinds of love. In movies such as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, The Queen, Philomena, and many others, Frears portrays widely varied situations and characters with a combination of insight, skepticism, and sympathy. He has the passionate, unjudgmental focus of an artist who stands simultaneously at a distance from his subjects and within their worlds. Through Frears' work is widely admired, Brill argues that he has attracted little scholarly writing because of a combination of the diffidence of his self-presentation and the difficulty of explicating the complex ideas and characters of his films. The Ironic Filmmaking of Stephen Frears is meant to inspire others to further examine his films individually and his career as a whole.

Author : Jeannie Cheatham
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292782686

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Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On by Jeannie Cheatham Pdf

“A breezy, light, and utterly charming tale of a musician’s life with all the ups-and-downs and turns-and-twists that are a part of those of us in jazz.” —Marian McPartland, jazz legend and host of the award-winning Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, Jeannie Cheatham has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz—T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Cab Callaway, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Odetta, and Jimmy Witherspoon. Cheatham toured with Big Mama Thornton off and on for ten years and was featured with Thornton and Sippie Wallace in the award-winning PBS documentary Three Generations of the Blues. Cheatham’s signature song, “Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On” is a staple in jazz and blues clubs across America and in Europe, Africa, and Japan. In this delightfully frank autobiography, Jeannie Cheatham recalls a life that has been as exuberant, virtuous, wild, and truthful as her music. She begins in Akron, Ohio, where she grew up in a vibrant multiethnic neighborhood surrounded by a family of strong women. From those roots, she launched a musical career that took her from the Midwest to California, doing time along the way everywhere from a jail cell in Dayton, Ohio, where she was innocently caught in a police raid, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison—where she and Jimmy Cheatham taught music. Cheatham writes of a life spent fighting racism and sexism, of rage and resolve, misery and miracles, betrayals and triumphs, of faith almost lost in dark places, but mysteriously regained in a flash of light. Cheatham’s autobiography is also the story of her fifty-years-and-counting love affair and musical collaboration with her husband and band partner, Jimmy Cheatham.

Author : Bebe Lord Gow
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475917345

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Seeking Hakka Bakka by Bebe Lord Gow Pdf

When precocious Mandolin MacDuff wakes up in a strange room, she feels scared, abandoned and then total emptiness turned her body into mush. But when she looked out her window, the only window, she sees a tall man driving a machine with one arm up and down, up and down. She studied him through her tears, discovered his other arm was kind of withered, hung loosely, and didn't seem to bother him. That meant he was brave. Cool! He would be her friend." And so begins a captivating generational story; a thirty-year quest into a complex world to find her way, to learn the truth, the secret of her past and the ever illusive hakka bakka

Author : Jerlean S. Noble
Publisher : Instant Publishing Group
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1591960118

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Big Mama and Me by Jerlean S. Noble Pdf

Author : Brian B. Kelly
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596878655

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The Irish Smuggler by Brian B. Kelly Pdf

“The Irish Smuggler is a rare find. Both a literary oeuvre and a gripping page turner. Highly readable in either context.” —Alexander Campion, author of the Capucine Culinary Mysteries “The Irish Smuggler is a multi-layered yarn of intrigue and adventure on a global scale. Stories that emerge from ‘The Troubles,’ tend to be rich in passion and adrenalin. Brian Kelly has invested The Irish Smuggler with a rich count of both.” —Stewart Meyer, author of The Lotus Crew and soon to be published, The Heist Broker “The Irish Smuggler is a great yarn! Well-written, well-researched, highly cinematic—and highly recommended.” —Rory O’Connor, author of Friends, Followers and the Future “Any Harvard graduate can write a book but only Brian Kelly could have written this thrilling adventure, The Irish Smuggler. It cries out for the big screen or a mini-series for the smaller screens around the world.” —Sergei V. Skvortsov, President of Phoenix Films, the leading prime-time television producer in Russia The Irish Smuggler is an adventure story which pits Padraic Egan and three other IRA volunteers, friends from childhood, against all comers as they smuggle arms into Ireland and global cannabis crops into the United States. Taking on the British Army, Afghan mujahidin, a seafaring hippy commune, Russian and Chechen gangsters, Soviet police and the American DEA, not to mention mother nature, their adventures are twisted and changed as continual opposition and obstruction force them to adapt. The reader will meet Afghan mujahidin as they fight a Soviet Army of monumentally superior force. Spanning a stretch of time from 1975 in Ireland to 1991 in New York, much of the story takes place in the heart of 1990 Afghanistan and across the USSR in its final weeks and days in 1991.

Author : Big Mama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000022660785

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Them Gospel Songs by Big Mama Pdf

Author : Debra G. Patterson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Spiritual life
ISBN : 9781425953324

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The Spirit of the Afterbirth and the After Birth of the Holy Spirit by Debra G. Patterson Pdf

Features Debra has logged nearly 60,000 hours in her spiritual travels for this book, and shared with people from various social backgrounds who are living their own lifestyles and practicing their own personal beliefs. This is the beginning of another -but not so ordinary-journey for Debra and all spiritual travelers. Her book includes short stories, devotionals, meditations, prayers, reasonings, praises, and salutations-words that are spiritually infused with the life changing power to address current social and spiritual issues.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110633950

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Etheridge Knight
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035033310

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Black Voices from Prison by Etheridge Knight Pdf

Author : Prof. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly,Evelyn L. Parker
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426734113

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In Search of Wisdom by Prof. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly,Evelyn L. Parker Pdf

edited by Anne E. Streaty Wimberly A guide for pastors, church leaders, and all who help African Americans in their search for a meaningful Christian lifestyle. Forming Christians--leading fallen and flawed human beings into the path of discipleship to a crucified and risen Lord--is one of the central, if not the central, tasks of all Christian churches. It is a difficult enough task anywhere, but for African Americans, beset by racial conflict, personal crises, generational separation, and other concerns, it is especially so. African American churches must work particularly hard to counter the messages their members receive from the dominant and often unfriendly culture. This book employs the biblical text and African tradition to draw on the idea of the search for wisdom as a potent way to help African Americans in their pursuit of genuine Christian discipleship. Wisdom in African American tradition is not simply knowledge; rather, it is those insights, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors,and practices that create and sustain a life of hope and that produce an inherent sense of the worth of one's self. If their members are to engage in the search for wisdom, African American churches must build an intentional ministry of faith formation. Wisdom can be gained, the authors argue, when African Americans listen to the black oral tradition with its proverbial sayings, revered Bible stories, songs, and narratives from the lives of exemplary individuals. The book offers several similar avenues for the search for wisdom, including helpful models of black males mentoring younger black males, as a remedy to the destructive effects that contemporary culture has on this segment of the African American community.

Author : A. Christian van Gorder
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449707828

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Pittsburgh Jesus by A. Christian van Gorder Pdf

Jesus promised, "I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world." Should it surprise us that Jesus would make it to the Three Rivers City and live among us, in word, spirit and truth? And, the gospels tell us, 'He went about everywhere doing good.' - that means in your home town, too. A.Christian van Gorder takes the "cookies" of faith and puts them on a shelf where anyone can reach them and delight in their sweetness.

Author : Shay Youngblood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015015527214

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The Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood Pdf

"Set in the Black small-town South of the early sixties, Shay Youngblood's stories capture the richness of being raised into womanhood by a community of women. As seen through the eyes of a girlchild mothered by her 'big mamas,' the daily lives of ordinary incredible women are dynamically portrayed. A 1990 Pushcart Selection."--BOOK JACKET.