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Reshonda Tate Billingsley Celebrates release of 20th Title

dcraddock — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:43:10 +0000

July 6th was the official release date of Holy Rollers, which is the 20th title written by Reshonda Tate Billingsley.

Holy Rollers is about three friends who are tired of chasing pro athletes in search of love. So they change the game and go after preachers! Lifelong friends Coco, Nita, and Tia have spent years looking for love in the arms of flashy pro athletes, hoping to land a baller but ending up with a stream of failed relationships. The beautiful and demure Coco has endured years of physical abuse from her boyfriend, Sonny, while Tia, a single mother, has dated her fair share of cheaters and yearns for a stable companion who will be a father figure to her son. And feisty, seductive Nita is tired of being the million-dollar mistress and wants to settle down—if she can find someone worth coming home to.

Changing the Game . . .

Now that the women are approaching thirty, they’re finding it harder than ever to compete with the pro groupies. Determined to change the game and find some worthwhile men, Tia hatches an outrageous plan. Soon the trio is “holy rolling,” masquerading as God-fearing churchgoers at a local conference for young ministers in the hopes of snagging a prominent pastor. But will their big gamble pay off? Men of the cloth are still just men, after all. As the three friends meet their potential life partners, they will have to decide how far they want to take their holy rollers scheme—each risking heartbreak while taking a chance on finding a reliable, responsible man to love and cherish, flaws and all.

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An award-winning former television and radio news reporter, ReShonda Tate Billingsley is currently, the co-host of From Cover to Cover, a literary talk radio show, and an editor for the Houston Defender newspaper. ReShonda is the author of 19 books which have appeared on the Essence bestseller list more than 20 times, as well as The Washington Post, Dallas Morning News and Ebony Magazine bestseller lists. She is married with three small children and lives in Texas.

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dcraddock — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:48:38 +0000

DARIUS JONES on Sale July 27!

Don’t miss the unveiling of the cover!

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BOOK SUMMARY

dcraddock — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:24:56 +0000

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

A bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control, by a rising legal star

Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.
—FROM THE NEW JIM CROW

As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status—much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.

A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander was a 2005 Soros Justice Fellow. She holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Columbus, Ohio, where she lives. The New Jim Crow is her first book.

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