There are so many things we focus on as a people that don't have any real economic impact on us. We let things slide that we shouldn't. We get all in an uproar on the trivial events. We spend money in the wrong places and get mad when we can't get ourselves out of a jam. There are many points I highlight in this book that shows a better way. We CAN accomplish Group Economics which will eventually lead to Economic Empowerment

Imagine the rapper/entrepreneur 50 Cent, of the hit Starz show "POWER", decided to write a self-help book that targeted the same audience who watches this show…which is about 10 million viewers per week. WHEN WE 'GON GET OUR SH*T TOGETHER is that book. It's quick to the point, doesn't play around 'cause people in dire needs ain't got time to play. They need an answer, and they need it now…!!!

Sometimes we have to deal with what's real and in our face, whether we want to or not. This book brings notable observations, that when dissected, will show you the numbers ain't adding up. Reports say this, but we see that. Studies show this, but we see that. It's the harsh truth, plain and simple, and unless we (as Black people) don't do something about it now, we probably won't ever get ahead of it. We are faced with an insurmountable mountain of threats towards us on a daily basis. The...

Renowned writers add context and depth to inspiring historical imagesFound Anew is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library. In their eclectic approach to ekphrasis—textual response to the visual—editors R. Mac Jones and Ray McManus have recruited an impressive g...

Don't let life's unintended drama sink your ship. Be always on point and never give someone the upper hand to manipulate you into doing something you don't approve of. Don't let issues into your circle and cloud your judgment. Continue your journey knowing you will achieve your goals in life…with as little stress as possible. And believe in God, knowing you'll be scarred though.Don't let life's unintended drama sink your ship. Be always on point and never give someone the upper hand to man...

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the ide...

“Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book.”—The New YorkerFrom Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African American writers of the twentieth century, comes her riveting autobiography—now available in a limited Olive Edition.First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston’s candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography—an imaginative and exuberant accoun...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interv...

The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of bricks, steel, and cotton, but of the people who suffered it to live.

Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the country in the shape of his wild surreal poems. These are memories of a life, captured through ...

A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century“Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty.”In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he “sketch in the streets like a painter but with words.” In August of th...

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural ic...