Crooked Out of Compton
Crooked Out of Compton

Author: Ron L. Dowell

Publisher: Running Wild, LLC

Published: 2024-09-02

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 196001837X

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Mention “ California,” and most people think of sun-kissed beaches, star-studded glamour, Hollywood success, or Silicon Valley. However, the stories in Crooked Out of Compton expand the narrative to include stories about othered Californians— each story reveals a different facet of the South [Central] Los Angeles community and its inhabitants. “ Professor Roach” follows the story of a disaffected young boy who' d rather be an insect. Sheriff' s deputy Daniel Brown finds institutional change difficult when he questions the status quo in “ Job Collateral Lies Dead on Compton Creek.” Leland Otis Dunwitty meets Mysteree, his first love, and finds how complicated relationships can be when lovers come from different track sides. At the Watts Towers, Tamara Thomas shares wisdom and teaches her children the facts of life in “ The Niggalators.” In “ Bruised,” Trina Thomas uses her mother' s teaching when she confronts several obstacles while rescuing her younger brother from his heinous foster mom, Starka&ñ a Wilkerson. The speculative ending story, “ Baba Nam Kevelam (My Most Beloved is the Only One),” occurs in 2037. Ulan Mohammed, an unemployed school food service worker, experiences the still unsolved unhoused issue.These gritty stories show how people find hope and joy in lives where basic needs are demanding to be met.

Compton Street Legend
Compton Street Legend

Author: Duane 'Keefe D' Davis

Publisher: KingDoMedia

Published: 2019-05-05

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13:

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The infamous Suge Knight, former Death Row Records CEO, and Keffe D are the only living eyewitnesses to the deadly confrontation on the Las Vegas strip between the occupants of our two vehicles. A violent confrontation that led to the deaths of two of Hip-Hop's biggest stars (Tupac Shakur & Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace) and changed Hip-Hop history forever. There's a strict code on the streets. One that real street players live, kill, and die by. Compton Street Legend reveals the street-level code violations and the explosive consequences when the powerful worlds of the streets, entertainment, and corrupt law enforcement collide. More than twenty years after the premature deaths of Tupac and Biggie there have been numerous TV specials, documentaries, books, magazine and newspaper, and social media dedicated to the subject. But at the end of the day, none of the private investigators, retired police officers, informants, Hip-Hop heads, actors, or academics that have weighed in on the topic truly know what happened and the reasons behind it, because none of them were there. Duane 'Keffe D' Davis, a native of Compton, California, admittedly lived most of his life as a gangster; a real gangster that did the shit that real gangsters do. He rose up the gang-banging ranks to become a shot-caller for the notorious Southside Compton Crips, while running a multi-million dollar, multi-state drug empire. Keffe D has been a central figure in both the Tupac Shakur and Biggie murders for the past 20 years. COMPTON STREET LEGEND will add valuable information about two of the biggest "unsolved" crimes in American history. It will serve as the missing piece of the puzzle that Hip-Hop Fans have been waiting for. On the surface, COMPTON STREET LEGEND will look like a story based on violence and hate, it is actually a story about Love, Family, Brotherhood, Loyalty, Trust, and Honor. It's time to set the story straight. Fasten your seatbelts.

Straighten Out Compton
Straighten Out Compton

Author: Delores Holbrook

Publisher:

Published: 2025

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781737483502

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Crooked Out of Compton is about the other California. These locations hover below the gaze of many acquisition editors and are underrepresented in poems and prose written about west coast places. The speculative opening story, Afixa?, takes place in 2033. From Ulan Mohammed's view, it addresses the still unsolved homelessness issue, an unemployed school food service worker. Ulan miraculously resists the detrimental symptoms of his situation due to his genetic makeup and, in turn, discovers that he has part of the solution for the unhoused. Sheriff's deputy Daniel Brown finds how difficult institutional change is when he questions the status quo in "Job Collateral Lies Dead on Compton Creek." Trina Thomas confronts several obstacles when trying to rescue her younger brother from his heinous foster mom, Starkaña Wilkerson. Trella Tapia finally finds the right job for her but must survive Kane Hospital emergency room to make it to her first day at work on time. Leland Otis Dunwitty meets Mysteree, his first love, and finds how difficult relationships can be when lovers come from different track sides. Otis' life spirals out of control in "Otis Elevates" until he lands a job at the mental health center in "Leland O. Dunwitty's Square Circle Edumacation." Fred Woodson tries to introduce his eighty-seven-year-old mother to walking as exercise to keep her alive longer but discovers that the task is not so easy when living in South L.A. When interviewed by newswoman Xochi De León, recovering hospital janitor Tallent Neal confronts his own past when faced with new permissive attitudes toward marijuana in "Weed Killers." That same janitor must confront generational change when he searches for his runaway granddaughter in "Out There on the Track." Fred Woodson comes to grip with mortality when forced to take his 88-year-old mother to the emergency room in "Pregnancy Test." These gritty stories show how people find hope and even joy in lives where basic needs are hard to meet.

Crooked Out of Compton
Crooked Out of Compton

Author: Ron L Dowell

Publisher: Rize

Published: 2024-09-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781960018625

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Crooked Out of Compton illuminates the lives of people Frank O' Connor called " submerged population groups." The book serves as a reminder in this era of retrograde discourse that many American institutions have failed to live up to their promises, and the plot will thicken once basic protections and service levels are curtailed or eliminated together by the threat of autocratic regimes. Many Americans oppose hard reality and seek to escape it by any means, including but not limited to conspiracy theories, alcohol, and other drugs. Stories in Crooked will remind the reader of work still undone and point to some consequences when society denies or obfuscates the goal of freedom for all.

Testing Times
Testing Times

Author: Luke Alfred

Publisher: New Africa Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780864865380

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'Testing Times' tells the story of South African cricket's struggle to find its own identity and to transform itself from whipping boy to world power during the post-war cricket era through cricketing greats such as Dudley Nourse, Eric and Athol Rowan, and more.