The Alphabet of Self-Esteem: An Inspirational Journal for Successful Living is a personal empowerment tool. It speaks to the inherent worth of every human being. The human potential is unlimited—the goal of this journal is to provide words of inspiration as well as a place to write down your dreams, goals, and desires. Moreover, this journal is a place to develop an action plan for you to become all that you can be—a fully optimized human being whose energy is focused on moving our world culture towards greater levels of divinity. As fully optimized human beings, we can help to foster a world that will be in alignment with God’s plan for the heavens, the earth, and all of God’s creation.

My vision for The Alphabet of Self- Esteem: An Inspirational Journal for Successful Living is that it will be a vehicle to get you from “life” to “living.” My prayer is that it will inspire you to write down your thoughts and dreams. Writing them down is the first step toward bringing the world of ideas into the material world. (buy this book)

Daily Fruit: 365 Days of Fruit of the Spirit is spiritual sustenance for seeking souls. The fruit of the spirit have eight manifestations: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and temperance (self-control). Beginning with January 1 the aforestated pattern repeats itself through December 31st.

Three versions of the Holy Bible were used to provide the daily fruit: King James Version, The Fruit of the Spirit Bible (1984) which is published by Zondervian Publishing House, and the Living Bible: Self Help Edition (1971) which is published by Tyndale House Publishers.

My vision for Daily Fruit is that it will serve as a useful tool to focus one’s energies on manifesting the fruit of the spirit. Read it daily, share your inspiration with a friend, and grow in spirit daily. My fervent prayer is that the fruit of the spirit will be abundant in your life. (buy this book)

365 Days of Kwanzaa is designed to celebrate African American accomplishment, the principles of Kwanzaa, the power of affirmation, the importance of language and vocabulary, and the knowledge that we can all be all that we make up our minds to be. Each day there is a positive affirmation, an assuring meditation, an inspirational word, the Kwanzaa principle of the day, and an African American achiever. Thus, this volumes provide a tool for the celebration of Kwanzaa, African American History Month, and a positive mental attitude all year round. (buy this book)

Black and Multiracial Politics in America
How will the changing ethnic and racial composition of American society affect the long struggle for black political power and inclusion? To what extent will these racial and ethnic shifts already occurring in the American population affect the already tenuous nature of racial politics in American society?

Using the literature on black politics as an analytical springboard, these essays bring together a broad demography of scholars from various racial and ethnic groups to assess how urban political institutions, political coalitions, group identity, media portrayal of minorities, racial consciousness, support for affirmative action policy, political behavior, partisanship, and other crucial issues are impacted by America's multiracial landscape.

Contributors include Dianne Pinderhughes, M. Margaret Conway, Pei-te Lein, Susan Howell, Mack Jones, Brigitte L. Nacos, Natasha Hritzuk, Marion Orr, Michael Jones-Correa, A.B. Assensoh, Joseph McCormick, Sekou Franklin, Jose Cruz, Erroll Henderson, Mamie Locke, Reuel Rogers, James Endersby, Charles Menifield and Lawrence J. Hanks. (buy this book)

The Struggle for Black Political Empowerment in Three Georgia Counties

Although the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the last legal barriers to black voting in the South, the anticipated increase in black political power has not been realized in some areas. In his analysis of black political participation in three Georgia Counties between 1960 and 1982, Lawrence J. Hanks seeks to explain why black political empowerment has not increased as expected but also why it has met with such widely varying degrees of success.

Why did blacks in some counties achieve empowerment while others did not” Arguing that models that focus on individual voting patterns or on political barriers to empowerment fail to account for the varying rates of black participation, Hanks draws instead on the literature of collective action. He finds that only in those counties where there was a successful black political organization, backed by strong leaders and sufficient resources, did blacks achieve political empowerment. Once established, such an organization gained popular support through programs of economic development and was able to overcome barriers like ignorance, poverty, and fear and thus promote effective political mobilization.

Approaching the subject historically, Hanks tell the real story of real people working for political change at the local level. He concludes that the franchise alone does not insure political effectiveness, and that blacks need to work toward greater organizational, economic, and political sophistication in order to reap the benefits of the vote.