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Why join the Black Moms Network?

My mom and I never talked when I was younger. She rarely knew what was going on in my head. I think a lot of black moms with teenage boys go through similar circumstances. I'd like to share what I was thinking and going through to open up dialogue between moms and sons out there.

How did you find the black moms club?

Ning

How many children do you have?

One.

About Me:

oronde ash is the author of 17 to Life: A Black Boy Memoir (On Becoming a Human...Being in America), a dense detail of American life from childhood to young adulthood --a coming of age and being of-the-ages story of knowing, feeling and engaging the world, all the while sensing its inefficacy and the pitfalls of its promise. These are the contradictions with which we live and learn in times of plenty and in these days of sacrifice and economic hardship.

Told through anecdotes and poignant accounts of his years in the suburb, his family’s move to New York City, life on food stamps, in roach and rat infested apartments, family dysfunction, struggles through school, adolescent fear, confusion, angst and doubt, 17 to Life takes the reader from loneliness, isolation and the coolness of first encounters, to understanding, acceptance and the resolve to adapt and change one’s situation to manifest a destiny.

Reviewer Diepiriye Kuku of Litgriot.com writes, “Conceivably, it is these experiences of new Americans that teach us old ones the most about where we stand despite, and in spite of the grand values espoused in our rhetoric.”

Visit www.lulu.com/orondeash and purchase 17 to Life: A Black Boy Memoir by oronde ash.

Gender

Male

Website:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bygINCpresents

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