There are many evil people in the world, and they are not monsters, beasts, ghosts, or demons. They are often... cultivators. Evil is not the opposite of good, it comes from fear! All living beings are afraid of me, so I am evil! If there is really evil retribution, then I will continue my evil to the end and become the person whose life and death are determined by me...the worst! Zongheng Xianxia, the evil ghost asked. My path to becoming an immortal begins with the smoke coming out of my head...
I Met God Through A Storm is a novel about two young adults of the opposite sex going through unexpected trials and tribulations that came about suddenly. Once nonbelievers in the Christian faith, their life circumstance pushes them to question everything that thought they knew about God.
A sweeping, narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system. The early 2020s will long be known as a period of racial reflection. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans of all backgrounds joined together in historic demonstrations in the streets, discussions in the workplace, and conversations at home about the financial gaps that remain between white and Black Americans. This deeply investigated book shows the scores of setbacks that have held the Black-white wealth gap in place—from enslavement to redlining to banking discrimination—and, ultimately, the reversals that occurred in the mid-2020s as the push for racial equity became a polarized political debate. Fifteen Cents on the Dollar follows the lives of four Black Millennial professionals and a banking company founded with the stated mission of closing the Black-white wealth gap. That company, known as Greenwood, a reference to the historic Black Wall Street district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, generated immense excitement and hope among people looking for new ways of business that might lead to greater equity. But the twists and turns of Greenwood’s journey also raise tough questions about what equality really means. Seasoned journalist-academics Louise Story and Ebony Reed present a nuanced portrait of Greenwood’s founders—the entertainment executive Ryan Glover; the Grammy-winning rapper Michael Render, better known as Killer Mike; and the Civil Rights leader and two-term Atlanta mayor, Andrew Young—along with new revelations about their lives, careers, and families going back to the Civil War. Equally engaging are the stories of the lesser-known individuals—a female tech employee from rural North Carolina trying to make it in a big city; a rising leader at the NAACP whose father is in prison; an owner of a BBQ stand in Atlanta fighting to keep his home; and a Black man in a biracial marriage grappling with his roots when his father is shot by the police. In chronicling these staggering injustices, Fifteen Cents on the Dollar shows why so little progress has been made on the wealth gap and provides insights Americans should consider if they want lasting change.
It doesn't matter what age a woman reaches the desire to be daddy's little girl never seems to die; maybe it's because in every woman that little girl will always be alive. This book is an open letter written by a little girl that grew up without her daddy in her life. Now as a woman she's crying out to him with so many questions that she believes only her daddy can answer, answers that she believes hold the key to discovering who she is and the purpose that her life will serve. Whether young or old, male or female there is a message on one of theses pages for everyone reading this open letter. You see God determined who the readers would be long before this letter was even written. It is not by chance that you are holding this open letter in your hand, your steps have been ordered, you have been chosen for greatness. This open letter will take you on a journey, a journey that will lead you to your true destiny. The wonderful life that you were created for. This is your moment in time, this is your season, don't let it pass you by.
Ebony Simms tried everything she knew possible to overcome her debilitating situations as she sat alone in her bedroom ready to give up on the world. She explains in Attitude of Gratitude how a changed mindset helped her to lose unwanted weight, become sober, overcome depression and most importantly how she walked away from a near death experience. To learn more about how she continues her journey she can be reached at ebonysimmsbooks@gmail.com Instagram Ebony_Simms Facebook Ebony Simms Twitter @SimmsEbony
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
2022 PROSE Award Finalist Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile environments in an effort to make the field more inclusive. Black, Brown, Bruised reveals the challenges that underrepresented racially minoritized students confront in order to succeed in these exclusive, usually all-White, academic and professional realms. The book provides searing accounts of racism inscribed on campus, in the lab, and on the job, and portrays learning and work environments as arenas rife with racial stereotyping, conscious and unconscious bias, and micro-aggressions. As a result, many students experience the effects of a racial battle fatigue—physical and mental exhaustion borne of their hostile learning and work environments—leading them to abandon STEM fields entirely. McGee offers policies and practices that must be implemented to ensure that STEM education and employment become more inclusive including internships, mentoring opportunities, and curricular offerings. Such structural changes are imperative if we are to reverse the negative effects of racialized STEM and unlock the potential of all students to drive technological innovation and power the economy.
Embark on a journey into the lives of the four Herods in "Almost." Three of them relentlessly pursued the Messiah or His Church for the wrong reasons. Yet, our focus eventually shifts to the last Herod, who is now pursued by the Messiah, driven by all the right reasons. These pages explore the significance of King Agrippa's response to Paul. This response compels us to reflect on our missed opportunities. In the second part of this book, we explore stories of individuals who could have had different lives only in some cases to fall short. They represent the "almosts" of history, reminding us of the missed opportunities that haunt the human experience. But the purpose of this book extends beyond mere examination. It beckons us to turn our gaze inward, scrutinize our lives, and refuse to settle for an existence characterized by "almost." No, we are called to pursue something far greater—a life where we make our calling and election sure. Join us on this exploration as we learn from the past and passionately pursue a future where we make our calling and election irrevocably secure. # Case Study, # Faith, # Bible Study, & Reference, # Education, # History, # Ministry & Evangelism, # Worship & Devotion, # Religious Studies & Reference, # Biographies & Memoirs, # Non-fiction, # Parenting, # Self Examination, # Biblical Leadership, # Family Matters, # Overcoming Abuse, #Forgiven
Format and Transform your prayer life on a new level, life changing level. A level you never imagined. Allow the testimonial story of Walking Into Your Promise, help lead and guide you to accessing the promises God has for you! This powerful story helps to show how vital it is to establish an authentic relationship and walk with God. It demonstrates how God will give us the tools needed through prayer to receive treasures that God has for us! As Ebony Butler portrays her relationship and life trials she has faced, while seeking God and praying, readers will be inspired and motivated to build a new phenomenal walk with God. Which will identify that God has so much greatness in store for all of his people! There is power in our prayers!
Bring history home and meet some of the world's greatest game changers! Get inspired by the true story of one of the world's most famous singers. This biography series is for kids who loved Who Was? and are ready for the next level. Beyoncé Knowles became famous as the lead singer of the popular group Destiny's Child. But on her own, she's had even bigger hits. From movies to Grammy Awards to performing at the Super Bowl halftime show, Beyoncé is one of the world's most amazing superstars. Find out how the girl who entered local singing competitions became one of history's greatest trailblazers! Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of amazing pioneers, past and present, from all over the world. Get inspired by more Trailblazers: Neil Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, Jane Goodall, Harriet Tubman, Albert Einstein, Beyoncé, and Simone Biles. What kind of trail will you blaze?
Imagine having your innocence stolen at an early age by someone you trust, or struggling financially before even knowing the meaning of the word “struggling”. Ebony Canion has had her share of tumultuous events, yet even she was stunned when a speeding car hit her intentionally, dragging her through the streets with her body folded underneath the vehicle. In a coma for nearly two months, Ebony had no idea her tongue and face had to be sewn back on, or the list of thirty other life-threatening injuries she had sustained. Ebony didn’t know she’d been “Left for Dead”. In this horrifying first-hand account of a survivor, Ms. Canion delivers a riveting story about overcoming tragedy throughout her childhood, and developing the will to live after numerous attacks on her life. Her strength to learn to walk, talk, and eat again will leave you spellbound and inspired. Her scars tell a story that must be heard and will have you never wanting to complain again.
Are you putting your hope in yourself or someone else? Are you idolizing people and things of this world? Are you doing your will instead of the Father's will? There is a desperate need today for people to cry out for the presence of the Lord. We cannot enter into His presence until He leads us through the Holy Spirit. So, if you are putting your hope in something or someone other than God, you will be blessed by the message of hope contained within these pages. Follow author Ebony Humphrey on a journey of life's struggles and the joyous victories that can come when we trust in God's will for every area of our lives, allowing His power to work within. Through her life experiences and marriage to NFL tight-end Tory Humphrey, Sr., Ebony has been blessed to see the power of God working in her own family.
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
The devastation of loss, humiliation and pain can take person through many facets of life that lead to rejection, depression and even suicide. These women tell their stories for the first time and leave you speechless from beginning to end.
Beauty in the Pulpit is a co-author anthology about real women in ministry who have endured hardship, rejection and abuse simply because they are both anointed and beautiful. It is a reality and the truth needs to be told. Let's save Esther and not kill her!
It is a summer that will change everything . . . .NaTasha has a wonderful life in affluent Park Adams. She fits in, she has friends, and she's a member of the all-white ballet troupe. Being nearly the only African American in her school doesn't bother NaTasha. But it bothers Tilly, NaTasha's spitfire grandmother from Harlem, who decides NaTasha needs to get back to her roots or her granddaughter is in danger of losing herself completely. Tilly whisks NaTasha away to a world where all of a sudden nothing in NaTasha's life makes any sense: Harlem and Comfort Zone in the Bronx, a crisis center where (cont'd)
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
My Life, My Story shares the story of Ebony Ferebees challenging life. From the age of eight, she has lived a very different life from others. Throughout her life, she has faced obstacles and challenges that have given her a very different perspective on life. She has dealt with abuse in her home, molestation, the death of a parent, a suicide attempt, her mothers breast cancer diagnosis, an identity crisis, an abusive relationship, and adjustment to becoming a military wife at nineteen. In My Life, My Story, she speaks to the little girl who just wants to be loved and to the young lady who wants a better life for herself. She has been able to overcome the challenges the world has thrown at her and live an amazing life despite all the odds against her. These days, she spends quality time with the Lord every day and keeps in touch with her brother, who is now in college. She strives to live up to Gods expectations, and there is no place she would rather be other than exactly where she is in her life. Celebrating womanhood and life!
My Life, My Story" shares the story of Ebony Ferebee's challenging life. From the age of eight, she has lived a very different life from others. Throughout her life, she has faced obstacles and challenges that have given her a very different perspective on life. She has dealt with abuse in her home, molestation, the death of a parent, a suicide attempt, her mother's breast cancer diagnosis, an identity crisis, an abusive relationship, and adjustment to becoming a military wife at nineteen. In "My Life, My Story, " she speaks to the little girl who just wants to be loved and to the young lady who wants a better life for herself. She has been able to overcome the challenges the world has thrown at her and live an amazing life despite all the odds against her. These days, she spends quality time with the Lord every day and keeps in touch with her brother, who is now in college. She strives to live up to God's expectations, and there is no place she would rather be other than exactly where she is in her life. Celebrating womanhood and life!
AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.
Mahogany Brownis a young stripper from Atlanta, GA. Shawn Knights the sexy, rich guy that may be just what the doctor ordered, with no hold on any of the side effects. Sexy, fast-paced, funny and inspiring, *Glorified* is the story of Mahogany Brown gold-digging her way into a possible death sentence. She finds emotional and mental freedom, a true self perspective, empowerment to inflict change, and love, through the knowledge she gains from the people she encounters and the trials she faces. Mahogany laughs, cries, fears life and fears its end, to go from garish to *GLORIFIED*. She is eternally grateful for her journey, and you will be too.
What happens if we took the word 'gospel, ' a word that has been traditionally used in a Christian context, and opened it up to broader usage? What happens if we, as a Black women, insisted that truth is not only found in sacred texts like the Bible, among others, but is also found in us, within the depths of our experience? What happens if we collectively insisted that our lives, our bodies, are also sacred texts that need to be studied and taken seriously
Off the heels of her husband's affair, Eve found herself voyaging on a road well traveled as the betrayed wife. Everything in her instructed her to leave him. However, from the counseling of her mother and pastor, she remained with her husband, Shamar. To aid in the healing of their marriage, the Dawson's sought marriage therapy. For Shamar, a year was enough time to heal from his sin, but for Eve, it would take much longer. While she loved her husband, trusting him would never be the same. Every late arrival home, unanswered text message or phone call, and trips out of town increased the distrust within her. Despite his demanding career as a criminal defense lawyer, Eve was often on the back burner of his life. If she had to set his priorities, they would follow as career, kids, family/friends, and finally -- wife. Tired of feeling like a fourth placed fool, Eve ventured out to find what she was missing from her husband. The search would lead her into the presence of a young stranger. Becoming the filler of her voided existence, the stranger would haul out pieces of Eve she never knew she had. Within a few fleeting moments in time, Eve went from being a devoted, bitter and alone wife to an unfaithful, happy and involved adulterer. The new life she led was all smoke and mirrors for what she did not see was the trouble lingering on the path ahead. At the end of Eve's Confession, the tried and true meaning of full forgiveness was put to the test. Not everyone was who they seemed and her best interests were never the main concern. Listen to the playlist of Eve's life where the hooks of the songs were her spinning life, the base of the guitars were her lustful desires and the beating drums were the uncertain future.
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