DJGBC Press Release: Backs Against The Wall by KD McGregor

Backs Against the Wall by K.D. McGregor

SYNOPSIS:
There’s only one thing that’s certain in this life, from the day we are all born we will surely die. What makes life interesting is everything that happens in our lives from the beginning to the end.

The Jordan family were no different from anyone else, just a loving family trying to make ends meet in the Brooklyn projects.
After the unexpected passing of their father, the Jordan brothers found themselves pulled into a life of crime struggling to keep there mother, their girlfriends,and most importantly each other from being swallowed up by the mean streets of Brooklyn.

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? What lines would you cross? The question facing the Jordan’s is the same one each of us might have to face any day now. What would you do if your back was AGAINST THE WALL ?

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Paperback – February 9, 2016

by Angela Davis (Author), Frank Barat (Editor), Cornel West (Preface)

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today’s struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today’s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.

Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that “Freedom is a constant struggle.”

“Angela Davis new book made me think of what Dear Nelson Mandela kept reminding us, that we must be willing to embrace that long walk to freedom. Understanding what it takes to really be free, to have no fear, is the first and most important step one has to make before undertaking this journey. Angela is the living proof that this arduous challenge can also be an exhilarating and beautiful one.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Whether you’ve grown up with the courage and conscience of Angela Davis, or are discovering her for the first time, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle is a small book that will be a huge help in daily life and action, from exposing the “prison industrial complex” that she named long ago to understanding that leaders are only leaders if they empower others. She herself exposes facts and makes connections, but also leads in the most important way–by example.”
—Gloria Steinem

“Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet. It is impossible to read her words or hear her voice and not be moved to comprehension and gratitude for our incredible luck in having her with us.”
—Alice Walker

“She has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and resist.”
—John Berger

“In this latest text of her magisterial corpus, Angela Davis puts forward her brilliant analyses and resilient witness here and abroad. In a clear and concise manner, she embodies and enacts “intersectionality” – a structural intellectual and political response to the dynamics of violence, White Supremacy, patriarchy, state power, capitalist markets, and imperial policies.”
—Dr. Cornel West, from the Foreword

“Davis’s arguments for justice are formidable. . . . The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dreams cannot be denied.”
—New York Times

*Get it today @ http://amzn.to/1QB8BjO

#4. Ashley Antionette

#4. Ashley Antionette

Ashley Antionette is one half of the bestselling duo responsible for the Ashley & JaQuavis novels.

#3. Carl Weber

#3. Carl Weber 

Carl Weber is a New York Times and #1 Essence® bestselling novelist. In addition to his writing, Weber is the founder and publisher of Urban Books and in 2005, he was named Blackboard’s Publisher of the Year. He is the owner of the Urban Knowledge chain of book stores and a past recipient of Blackboard’s Bookseller of the Year award. Weber graduated from Virginia State University and holds an MBA in marketing from the University of Virginia.

#2 Jaquavis Coleman

#2 Jaquavis Coleman

JaQuavis Coleman is one half of the writing Duo “Ashley & JaQuavis”. NY times best seller author, USA Today top 100, and film director, he is considered one of the best African American Authors in the country.

 

#1 Reshonda Tate Billingsly

 

#1 Reshonda Tate Billingsly

I am a former news reporter and anchor, who now writes books full-time. I’m the author of 35-plus books and a mother to three. My sophomore novel, Let the Church Say Amen, has been made into a movie, directed by actress Regina King and produced by Queen Latifah’s Flava Unit, Royal Ties Productions and Bobcat Films. (Oh, and I do make my film debut as well! Look for me in the church scene!)Honored to have won the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Say Amen, Again and been nominated again in 2013. I am also the cofounder of Brown Girls Books, a boutique publishing company with over 20 authors. I’m also a proud University of Texas at Austin graduate. Not only do I love writing, I love reading almost as much!