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Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left h...

Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story. It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947. I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother. He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left h...

James tells the story of how a once prosperous neighborhood became gang-ridden, drugged out, and violent-prone. He speaks through the lips of Benjamin Luther Slokum and how Ben related to ghosts of his grandma, his brother Ivy, and his cousin Roy. These people were all murdered on the corner of Fifth and Dice Streets in the heart of Fifeville in Ben's presence. Ben hid while his cousin was gunned down by Jamie Charles, a notorious member of th...

James tells the story of how a once prosperous neighborhood became gang-ridden, drugged out, and violent-prone. He speaks through the lips of Benjamin Luther Slokum and how Ben related to ghosts of his grandma, his brother Ivy, and his cousin Roy. These people were all murdered on the corner of Fifth and Dice Streets in the heart of Fifeville in Ben's presence. Ben hid while his cousin was gunned down by Jamie Charles, a notorious member of th...

William A. James, Sr., in seven chapters, details how Lincoln Black was "Rudely Awakened, " early one morning. His sister-in-law, Patty, called to announce that Cory, his youngest Brother, was in a coma in a Maryland hospital. Later, Tommy, the Brother next to Lincoln, announced that Cory had died from HIV/AIDS. Lincoln never recovered from the shock of the above news. He lost control of his emotions and his physical being, and he temporarily ...

William A. James, Sr., in seven chapters, details how Lincoln Black was "Rudely Awakened, " early one morning. His sister-in-law, Patty, called to announce that Cory, his youngest Brother, was in a coma in a Maryland hospital. Later, Tommy, the Brother next to Lincoln, announced that Cory had died from HIV/AIDS. Lincoln never recovered from the shock of the above news. He lost control of his emotions and his physical being, and he temporarily ...

Abe Jones came into this world kicking and screaming, to a single mother of seventeen. She was of that dark-skinned variety of Blacks, that his father could not love. His grand mother on his father's side, insisted that his father marry his mother, Lucille, and Albert, his father made all of their lives miserable. Abe was beaten, maimed, and emotionally scarred for the rest of his life. Abe's mistreatment at home, in school, and out in the wor...

Abe Jones came into this world kicking and screaming, to a single mother of seventeen. She was of that dark-skinned variety of Blacks, that his father could not love. His grand mother on his father's side, insisted that his father marry his mother, Lucille, and Albert, his father made all of their lives miserable. Abe was beaten, maimed, and emotionally scarred for the rest of his life. Abe's mistreatment at home, in school, and out in the wor...

William A. James Sr. has done it again. He delves into the emotional side of why Vinegar Hill, a 20-acre-tract, was deemed an unbearable slum, and had to be destroyed immediately in 1963. Everything wrong with Charlottesville was blamed on the innocent inhabitants of the "Hill." When three notorious hoodlums killed a UVA student, and Gabe Owens informed on them, most of the City Council and the UVA President swung into action. They masterminde...

William A. James Sr. has done it again. He delves into the emotional side of why Vinegar Hill, a 20-acre-tract, was deemed an unbearable slum, and had to be destroyed immediately in 1963. Everything wrong with Charlottesville was blamed on the innocent inhabitants of the "Hill." When three notorious hoodlums killed a UVA student, and Gabe Owens informed on them, most of the City Council and the UVA President swung into action. They masterminde...

Ace Blackman plays the Blues because it had been deeply ingrained into his soul, just like it was in the soul of Joe Makery his Bass Player. Ace's great grandpa Jack, a tenant farmer in the Tidewater area, was brutally murdered in the presence Ace's grandpa, Johnny, who turned away from playing church music. He blamed God for not protecting his father. Johnny played the Blues, instead of spiritual music like his father had. A white agent was i...

Ace Blackman plays the Blues because it had been deeply ingrained into his soul, just like it was in the soul of Joe Makery his Bass Player. Ace's great grandpa Jack, a tenant farmer in the Tidewater area, was brutally murdered in the presence Ace's grandpa, Johnny, who turned away from playing church music. He blamed God for not protecting his father. Johnny played the Blues, instead of spiritual music like his father had. A white agent was i...

A Phenomenon occurred in a quiet picturesque county-side Hamlet called Gravel Hill that rivals the Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson, Stephen King's The Shining, and or, Ann Arenberg's INCUBUS. Caroline and Robert, Jr., her son, were caught in a vortex of Satanism, "Black Witchcraft, " and demonic possession. Caroline conjured seven people to death. Robert murdered four innocent women. Caroline was killed by Satan, "and then she confessed to Fix...

A Phenomenon occurred in a quiet picturesque county-side Hamlet called Gravel Hill that rivals the Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson, Stephen King's The Shining, and or, Ann Arenberg's INCUBUS. Caroline and Robert, Jr., her son, were caught in a vortex of Satanism, "Black Witchcraft, " and demonic possession. Caroline conjured seven people to death. Robert murdered four innocent women. Caroline was killed by Satan, "and then she confessed to Fix...

William A. James, Sr., has created a cogent book of essays that deals with a perplexing problem found among African-Americans. James calls it "The Skin Color Syndrome. His book is divided into four sections, consisting of seven chapters. Within those chapters he depicts five principles that define blacks' "intra racial hatred, " a hatred based upon "Pigmentation Discrimination, " as the first principle of the Skin Color Syndrome. James then d...

William A. James, Sr., has created a cogent book of essays that deals with a perplexing problem found among African-Americans. James calls it "The Skin Color Syndrome. His book is divided into four sections, consisting of seven chapters. Within those chapters he depicts five principles that define blacks' "intra racial hatred, " a hatred based upon "Pigmentation Discrimination, " as the first principle of the Skin Color Syndrome. James then d...