Bøger af Tony Medina

If, indeed, it's a "woman's right to choose," then what happens to the man's right? Chubert Davis is quite a charismatic, highly intelligent, and gregarious twenty-something that is adored and respected by everyone with whom he comes in contact. He shares a deep bond of friendship with several other career-minded young adults and those bonds are rock solid. That is until he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, and the issue of abortion forces them to come to terms with what they truly believe in and their own self-worth. But life is strange. Often times there are issues that are so important that it's not just the individuals who are directly involved who are affected. Many others who love them also find themselves questioning each other's morality and their own ethics as well. A Man's Wrong to Choose? is a gripping and unusual account of the repercussions of an unplanned pregnancy. You may even find yourself exploring the depth of your own relationships and belief systems with family, friends, and God. Whether male or female and no matter what your position is on the right to choose or anything related to unwed pregnancy, you're sure to be riveted by the spellbinding story of these young adults as they struggle with their personal beliefs and heart-wrenching decisions. This book is a must read for those who have made the crucial mistake of having unprotected sex and face the potential of lifelong consequences as a result.

""Welcome to the 21st Century"" bids the opening line of this literary ""multimedia"" experience, brought to us by three leading Black author-activists of the post-Civil Rights Movement generation. This collection of more than 300 poems, essays, paintings, photos, and mixed media representations features myriad voices of the generation bridging the gap between the children of the Civil Rights Movement and those of the present hip hop movement.

For use in schools and libraries only. Alfonso can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic play. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer misatkes a clothes hanger for a gun and shoots Alfoso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets.

A young African-American boy is eager to receive the holiday presents he's wishing for, the big tree he's hoping to get, and the cake he'll bake with his grandmother. However, he wonders about the people who don't get presents, or who don't even have a place to live. He soon realizes that he can make a difference by giving some of his presents to kids who have none. Full-color illustrations.

This book explodes the bourgeois self-indulgence of American culture to give a lambasting critique of its current global ultra-exploration and political repression.

In this uplifting story told in verse, a young boy living in the inner city projects tells about his hopes, fears, and dreams.

MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM is a blues memoir in verse. With brutal honesty and lyrical prowess, Tony Medina plays the changes in an intimate collection that sticks like a stinging Ali punch and moves like a New York City subway train through the raw, unmitigated terrain of his psyche. Sparked by the sudden death of his father in Harlem, MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM examines his relationship with a long-lost mother who abandoned him at birth, exploring his Bronx projects childhood and his relationship with the paternal grandmother who wrestled him from the clutches of the State and raised him, culminating with a reunion with his terminally ill mother, attempting to fill in the gaps of a precarious past destined to collide with its bare-bones present. In this, his fifth full-length collection, Tony Medina is at his most personal and revelatory.

A biography in verse of reggae legend Bob Marley, exploring the influences that shaped his life and music on his journey from rural Jamaican childhood to international superstardom.