african american youth

A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who went on the run after shooting a young girl and was later found dead, shot by members of his own gang.

Jade Morgan, who wants her parents to get back together, wrestles with her father and her boyfriend Terrence's strange behavior.

Indigo Summer and her boyfriend Marcus Carter decide to see other people while they are on summer vacation, but when Indigo gets in over her head while staying with her independent cousin, she knows Marcus is the only person who can help her.

Shares anecdotes from the childhoods, teen years, and young adult lives of three men from Newark, New Jersey, who made a pledge to each other in high school to stay safe from drugs, gangs, and crime, and work to become doctors--a goal they have successfully achieved.

Abraham Singleton grows up in the Ever Park projects among the crack epidemic and HIV crisis of the 1980s and tries to figure out how to achieve his dreams while his grandmother tries to hold the family together despite various hardships.

Presents nineteen essays on the history of rap and hip-hop music and the controversies surrounding it, covering such topics as "gangsta" rap and homophobia.

An African-american youth in a small town in Kansas finds himself the only witness to a murder.

The rumor mill gets busy when seventeen-year-old Courtland Murphy breaks up with basketball player Allen Benson, who has enlisted his fellow players in making her life miserable, but new star player Aidan Calhoun makes it clear he supports her involvement in the Worth-the-Wait club, and though Courtland has vowed not to date another athlete, she finds herself falling fast.

Presents personal observations on the early days of hip-hop music and culture as it developed from New York City in the 1970s, and includes photographs, as well as vintage photos and posters.

A study of gangs and graffiti in Los Angeles, presenting a cross-cultural, political approach to the topic of gangs in L.A.; featuring ethnographies of Chicano and African American gangs, primarily as seen through their graffiti; offering a brief review of hip-hop graffiti; and discussing cross-ethnic gang relationships.