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Book by Crystal Cartier
Curse of the Vendetta" Horror Trilogy
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Bio Sketch
Crystal Cartier has been a published
author since age 9. In addition to writing horror, Crystal
writes poetry, songs, children’s books, &social
commentary. She is also an actress. Singer/songtress &
recording artist. Her music CD Love Story: Act One is available
at www.cdbaby.com/ccartier.
Her song “Queen Size Lover” has been featured nationally on
the Black Starz Cable TV Channels.
more bio
"If I can help someone along the way...my living will not have
been in vain."
my music:
www.cdbaby.com/ccartier
my ministry:
www.crystalcartier.com
my books: any place books are
sold. Just ask for Crystal Cartier's
"Immortal Obsession" or "Curse of the Vendetta"
Genre: Black Gothic
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I might add, white women are having a ball
ripping into Janet Jackson like a school of vicious piranha
& sharks. It is the white women that are driving this
smear campaign being waged solely against poor Janet.
"Poor" Janet because she is caught up in the lair of
Satan that is the music industry and for a moment she forgot
that she is quite simply a Black woman . . . with all the
limitations & protocols that label entails . . . rich or
not. She is not MaDonna
nor Brittany Spears.
Crytsal on Janet & Michael
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Today, my father is trapped in the waters of
Katrina, like my grandmother lost her life to Betsy. My
father is 87 years old, I have not heard from him since the
flood started. I am a pastor and social activist today.
I go out and feed the homeless, visit prisons, do
sick-an-shut-in work, and minister to the youth. I have
turned my life around, but my peers in New Orleans are all dead.
Our whole life experience has been one of tragedy.
Katrina
killed those already dying!
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My life was a blues song to the max'—U.S.
District Judge Edward Nottingham ordered
Cartier to change her clothes when she
strode into court on the day of
Jackson's testimony dressed in fishnet
stockings, spike heels and a tight black
leather dress that revealed her
cleavage.
"I had dressed like a
schoolmarm, a frump, for the entire
trial," she said. So she wore the
leather dress featured in her
Dangerous video that had aired on
television all week during the trial. "I
didn't want Michael to totally upstage
me," she said.
"Gee, all this over
some cleavage," Cartier said. "Michael
sat there wearing his little suit with
orange epaulets and more makeup than I
did. He looked like a flaming drag
queen. What I wore was disrespectful?
They acted like I was wearing pasties!
It was horrible."
The media frenzy
provoked by the dress and the judge's
rebuke led Cartier to stay home when the
verdict was read.
"I couldn't take it
anymore," she said, tears streaming down
her face at the memory of her
humiliation. "I couldn't believe the
verdict. It started out as David and
Goliath, but all of a sudden I was
Jezebel, thrown to the dogs and all over
some cleavage."
And it began a descent into
depression that stopped Cartier from
performing.
Rocky Mountain News |
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
you happy." |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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Negro Digest /
Black World
Browse all issues
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Enjoy!
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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updated 9 April 2008
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