street life

The author describes his life growing up in urban Baltimore with a former Black Panther for a father. He relates the challenges his father faced while trying to raise each of the family's seven children amidst the dangers of the streets.

Discusses life in the streets in the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties as the author recounts his time searching for an identity and escape from poverty while surrounded by drugs and violent crime before finally moving to Virginia.

A drug dealing drop-out comes between childhood friends Crea McCloud and Fiona Spencer.

Daquan Watson uses his gift for music to help him build a new future with New Orleans' biggest rap label, overcoming the dangers and tragedies of his childhood in the city's notorious, drug-infested projects, but even as he makes a new life for himself, Daquan wonders if he will ever be able to escape his urban upbringing.

Explores the Mara Salvatrucha; discussing the gang's origins, structure, activities, symbols, and rituals; and providing interviews with MS-13 members. Includes bonus feature on the history of gangs in America.

Ex-convict and drug dealer Trill Johnson seeks revenge on the man responsible for his imprisonment, and copes with problems with his girlfriend while having an affair with Sunni James, a beauty shop owner who helped him when he was being chased by the police.

After getting pregnant Keyshia is sent to live with her aunt in New York City, but an act of violence sends Keyshia to seek out street life; and after meeting Clyde, who comes from a troubled home, they work together to pay back a huge sum of money to a Harlem crime boss.

Silver Jones longs for an education, thinking it is the only way she will escape the mean streets, but her dreams of college are put on hold by her affair with Chance, a powerful drug overlord who wants to leave the streets behind and start a new life.

Dreading the prison release of his violent older brother, who blames him for his imprisonment and for stealing his pregnant girlfriend, young drug dealer Alfredo struggles with cultural clashes in Queens while planning to steal a pit bull for a homecoming dogfight.