Nationwide — Creator Jeh Allen has introduced the launch of BLACK: The Bear on Our Backs, the primary e book in his Black Novel Sequence. The e book addresses
The primary character within the sequence, Jason Black, is an elite, Black American sprinter who’s vying to compete for gold within the 100-meter sprint on the 2016 Rio Summer time Olympic Video games. However Jason’s preparation for these video games is interrupted when he’s pressured to defend himself in opposition to Roscoe Baker, the white safety guard that held him at gunpoint throughout a late-night response to a neighborhood disturbance.
Fearing for his life, Jason stabs Baker along with his sling blade knife – which he all the time has on the prepared – and when he’s apprehended after a number of weeks on the run, he’s the one charged with tried homicide, with Baker providing up a Standing My Floor protection.
Jason nervously awaits the announcement and subsequent begin of a jury trial that, if misplaced, would make him the brand new face of black criminality. Nevertheless, whereas lodged on the Black-owned and operated Sojourner Vista Resort and Convention Middle, Jason has an epiphany about what he and different Black athletes, intellectuals and entrepreneurs can do to reconstruct black labor at present for the roles of tomorrow.
However standing in his manner is Malcolm Stillwell, a 76-year-old white businessman from Manhattan, New York, who needs to make use of curiosity in Jason’s court docket case to sow racial division and hate as he vies for the Republican Social gathering’s presidential nomination. Unbeknownst to Jason, securing the US presidency is nothing greater than a begin for Stillwell, as he and brokers of the shadowy Accomplice States of America escalate their infiltration of the Republican Social gathering of their ongoing effort to make use of governmental powers to resurrect the Accomplice South.
BLACK: The Bear on Our Backs is obtainable for buy on Amazon.
In regards to the AuthorJeh Allen is a Inventive Author whose views and opinions are knowledgeable by his studying of seminal texts by distinguished authors of all racial hues, in addition to his lived experiences. A persistent optimist, he’s all the time holding out hope that humanity’s higher angels will prevail. He calls the Washington, DC/Metropolitan space residence.
The BLACK Novel Sequence is being written as a vital literary response to makes an attempt to silence black Progressive voices and impair the American populace’s entry to dependable sources that promote variety, fairness, inclusion, love, justice and peace.
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