Saving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom
Daily Affirmations For Young Black Males
ISBN 978-0-9723880-3-0 * $15.00* Paperback* 220 pages* Release Date, April, 2007
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Saving The Race: Empowerment Through Wisdom is a book of essays and daily affirmations for young men
who face the hard challenges of every day life, and the unique challenge of being black males under seige,
in America. The book is designed to inspire young men to think positive, to aspire to achieve, resist
negative influences and build faith in their efforts to be successful in life, in love and in their
accomplishments. Save The Race targets America "at-risk" populations, young men who are at a crossroads
in life, young men re-entering society from juvenile justice and corrections systems, young men afflicted
by gangs and the pressures of sex, alcohol, drugs that can lead them into bad decision, and encourages
to view failure and momentary challenges as life lessons and opportunities to succeed. Saving The Race
is for every young man who needs positive reinforcement in their life, on a daily basis, and for
mother, sister and significant other who knows a young without a positive influence in their life. It is
the responsibility of us all to "save the race" by reaching to these young men, building their
judgement, and help guide their thinking in a way that leads them to, and keeps them on, the right track in life.
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50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America
"African America's Continuing Pursuit of 14th Amendment
Civil and Equal Protection Rights"
BOOK SYNOPSIS
50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America is an assessment of the state of equality
for Blacks in America, fifty years after the United States Supreme Court ruled America's nearly sixty year
old practice of Jim Crow Segregation was illegal and to be banished from American society. Examining the
50th Anniversary of Brown versus The Board of Education of Topeka, KS , the case that successfully engaged
the U.S. Supreme Court to give African Americans full protections under the 14th Amendment and rule
"Separate but Equal" de jure segregation as unconstitutional serving as the backdrop, this book looks
to assess what equality means in America and whether equality for Blacks has ever been achieved. 50
Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America analyzes the history of equality definitions
in America, how equality was obtained, what the "privileges" of equality have been, and what were the
conditions under which equality has been maintained. Analyzed in three sections, 50 Years After Brown:
The State of Black Equality In America assesses the reoccurring challenges African Americans have faced,
and still face, in their 225 year fight to receive equal benefits and equal protection under the law in
the United States of America.
The book, based on research stemming from Samad's on-going dissertation study, highlights several
questions relative to, "What is equality in America, and what privileges and societal benefits extend
from equality?," "Who is entitled to equality in America?," and most critically, "Have African American
ever been extended true equality, and are they 'equal' in today's society of race, class and privilege?"
Samad seeks to examine equality in its truest context of civil liberties and civil rights, not only as
defined and extended by the Constitution but, as defined by popular culture and practiced through societal attitudes.
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Souls For Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man
Conflict and Compromise of Second Generation Advocacy
in the Post
Civil Rights Era
Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man is a firsthand account (autobiography) about the experiences
of a young man seeking to bring change in his community (Los Angeles, CA) and learns about the conflicts and
compromises that come with trying to advance a "1980's civil rights" progress agenda. The book focuses on
the perspectives of the leadership decisions of a second generation (post-civil rights era) advocate who is
ultimately compromised and jailed for taking on controversial issues. The book chronologizes the authors
involvement in several issues in the mid 1980's of local and national consequence. It is a discussion of
the generational conflicts and compromises of the post civil right era advocacy (1980 to the present) and
the inner race conflicts of advocating for equality, fairness and principle during the 1980's, a decade of
greed, in a time when the Regan Administration began to simultaneously reintroduced a new social construct
and targeted economic prosperity ("Reaganomics") that effectively ended the old "civil rights era."
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