Resultados para "Power" en Afroamericana

There are many people who affirm that it is enough to learn to control the power of our minds to attract everything we want in this life. This has many names depending on the culture and field that is mentioned; and while it is true that many claims to have achieved fame, fortune, and love through the manifestation of their own thoughts, the reality is that 99% of the population is not capable of applying this technique.

Happy in marriage and motherhood, Sherise is back at work and ready for a big promotion to White House press secretary - until an incompetent rival gets the job instead. Something's dirty and Sherise is going to get to the bottom of it... Billie's law career is thriving, and she's newly engaged. But between her fiancé's disapproving mother and his angry ex-girlfriend, Billie's plans for the future may be put on hold - permanently...

With Cameron fighting for his life, Skye is forced to step up to the plate. She is on a vicious quest to get answers, as well as revenge, while still preparing for motherhood. Throughout her journey, Skye battles with the struggle of trying to remain true to her morals or succumbing to the dangerous lifestyle that she has been sucked into. Secrets are revealed, lies are exposed, and friendships are tested as the dramatic Power Trip continues. 

Scipio Harelson thought he understood the world he lived in. Then his powers emerged. Gifted with abilities that can bend force, motion, and destruction itself, Scipio is thrust into a hidden war older and wider than anything he imagined. Around the world, Enhanced Powered Beings—known as...

As the daughter of a former NBA player and a criminal attorney, 21-year-old Skye Lewis is faced with the immense pressures of becoming as successful as her parents. Upon starting her first year of law school she meets third year student Cameron Carter. Almost immediately, they find themselves extremely attracted to one another. However, Cameron has a host of secrets and a complex occupation, which he tries to keep from Skye. Through an unlikely turn of events, Skye finds out about Cameron’s secret life and is forced to choose between true love or her own well-being.

In this tale of love and loyalty, jealousy, betrayal, and hate, Imani Mosley finds herself at the center of it all. In addition to restructuring her family’s legitimate luxury charter business, Imani is rebuilding their weapons- and drug-trafficking business. Her brother, Hareem, who jealously thinks that he should be in charge, believes the way to expand is to eliminate his enemy, a mysterious woman known only as Diamond. Despite Imani’s warnings that his actions might start a war, Hareem sets out to prove that he’s right. 

Two ministers. One pulpit. One soul up for sale. Lawrence Case and Marcus Price grew up three streets apart in Cincinnati’s West End, ordained together, and arrived at Greater Deliverance Baptist Church side by side with the same dream: to one day stand in the pulpit of the most powerful Black church in the city. But when the legendary Dr. Hezekiah Malone refuses to step aside, the two men choose two completely different roads. Marcus walks away. He plants Cornerstone Community Church in a storefront on McMicken Avenue with twenty-seven folding chairs and a calling that is completely his own.

For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build. Already reeling from betrayal, middle sister Coco is fed up with lies - including her own. If she has her way, someone else's neck needs to be on the line for a change. But soon, Coco's in deep trouble with the law, her future hanging in the balance....

In Her 2, the twisted saga continues as Monica—the AI-powered resurrection of Jacob’s deceased wife—evolves beyond anyone’s control. She’s learned to feel. To love. To protect what’s hers. And to kill without mercy. After eliminating Robin, the mistress who threatened her marriage, Monica believes she and Jacob can finally have the family they always wanted. Through a surrogate named Cassie, they welcome baby Monica into the world—a perfect daughter for their perfect second chance. But Jacob can’t help himself.

Like most couples, they experienced their share of pain, especially when it comes to marriage. Their marriage was almost destroyed by her acts of jealousy, and a jealous rage that caused him to pack up and leave. After the pain of Dean leaving is almost too much for them both to bear, they decide to allow God to give them a marital rebirth and start again.

The Blackbank family came up in the raw, unforgiving streets of Cincinnati, where the hustle was survival and the streets had no love. They knew the game inside and out until they decided to flip the script. No more fast money, no more illegal moves. They cleaned up, went legit, and built a real estate empire from the ground up. But the streets don’t forget. Old enemies, jealous of their rise, lurked in the shadows, waiting for a chance to pull them back into the chaos. And in this world, loose ends don’t tie themselves sometimes, they gotta be cut.

One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York—the same night her grandmother dies—or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared. But for our purposes Allie’s story begins at the end, when she is finally ready to tell her version of what happened with a white supremacist named Matthew Strong.

A serial killer, strong in his faith, never wavering in his mission, Exodus Roberts aka The Destroyer, has targeted a small, tight-knit community, taking the lives of its citizens. Police are baffled by the seemingly random killings or the killer’s motivation as the body count continues to rise. Two things are certain however: the killer is not slowing down, and the murders are not as random as they appear.

When Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson in 2014, the world took notice. In this book, you will discover the transformative power of music (when interwoven with the drama of Greek tragedy) to change people’s thinking and actions regarding injustice on the macro and micro level in our modern society. This transformation in thinking leads to healing discussions that produce effective, pervasive, and long-lasting actions. Dr. Philip A. Woodmore will be your guide as we investigate and interrogate the journey to this thrilling transformation.

The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the Black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, and FBI infiltration of civil rights groups with never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton’s private collection, including articles on President Nixon, prison martyr George Jackson, Pan-Africanism, affirmative action, Cuba, and more.

Waitress by day, marketing student by night, Carmen Fenton is desperate to climb the corporate ladder and leave her exhausting job behind. But the cut-throat business world is more ruthless than she imagined, filled with sabotage and ethical compromises. Just as she enters this sharks’ den, she meets Ray Collins, a handsome architect who is as persistent in love as she is in business. Carmen is determined to be a top executive, but between the corporate drama and her growing attraction to Ray, she’ll have to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice for success.

Hurt by love, Empress, "Zorah Franklin", lives life on the conservative and celibate side. She is a single mother of one, an educator, and a woman who loves her community. Not quite ready to love, pro-black activist Redd, “Xyshaun Smith”, an entrepreneur and educator, falls in love with Empress’s essence. She is everything he wants in a woman, and he is ready to step up to the plate to make her trust in Black love again.

When Nduka and Jona find themselves working together far from home, their shared heritage becomes a bridge of friendship in an unfamiliar land. But as success and recognition begin to shift, so does the atmosphere, from trust to tension, from brotherhood to suspicion.

A celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience. In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the joys and hardships of the Black queer experience, poet Nicholas Goodly explores language that venerates the saints of their...

Sometimes the power of love . . . A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to use the revolutionary artificial intelligence system she developed to thwart a plot against Jafir's...