Dope Girl 3

In this installment of the Dope Girl saga Cameisha and crew are faced with some difficult situations and decisions. Dasias' drug habit has come to light and must be addressed. Bilal has to choose between his career and the girl he loves. Jackie has decided to be a full fledged mber and Aqua is still Aqua. Armed with a new synthetic coke the crew is set to become major players but not without a cost. The super drug gets the user super high, but something is wrong, people are dying. Marisol makes a startling discovery that has a deadly price tag. Cameisha has a new man in her life who shares her ambition. With her product and how hustle they can't do anything but TURN UP.

In this installment of the Dope Girl saga Cameisha and crew are faced with some difficult situations and decisions. Dasias' drug habit has come to light and must be addressed. Bilal has to choose between his career and the girl he loves. Jackie has decided to be a full fledged member and Aqua is still Aqua. Armed with a new synthetic coke the crew is set to become major players but not without a cost. The super drug gets user super high, but something is wrong, people are dying. Marisol makes a starting discovery that has a deadly price tag. Cameisha has a new man in her life who shares her ambition. With her product and his hustle they can't do anything but TURNUP!

After proving she can master the drug game as proficiently as her male counterparts, TORI has risen to the top. Her strict adherence to the codes of the streets, and her uncanny DOPE GIRL MAGIC has her name ringing hard. Everyone wants to rock with the Queen. Tori's crew exhibits unwavering loyalty and her relationship with JUDE is starting to show great promise. The beef between Tori and her arch enemy is boiling hot like lava. Will it erupt and wipe out everything in its path? When a pool of vicious sharks come for her pretty head, will Tori be able to ward them off and make them Bow Down to the Throne? Or will she wither away when she comes face to face with the most ruthless killa she's ever encountered?

A drug panic. Murder. Terrifying and mysterious black and Chinese immigrants. Dope Kings. Jazz. War. An actress dead of an overdose. Dope Girls is about the transformation of drug use into a national menace. It revolves around the death in 1918, in the last furious stages of the First World War, of Billie Carleton, a West End-musical actress. Its cast of characters includes Brilliant Chang, a Chinese restaurant proprietor, and Edgar Manning, a jazz drummer from Jamaica. Around them, in the streets off Shaftesbury Avenue and in Chinatown, swirled a raffish group of seedy and rebellious hedonists. And so the drug problem was born amid a gush of exotic tabloid detail.

Born a dope baby, I became a college graduate, a mother of three, an entrepreneur, an Income Tax professional and an NFL wife. I was raised in the 80's and 90's amid the crack cocaine epidemic, the worst and deadliest drug surge the United States had ever seen that plagued predominantly low-income African American communities. This is a story of how the cheap drug caused devastating effects not only to the addict we come to know as Rose, but also to me, Rose's youngest child. Almost every encounter we have with a person who suffers from addiction focuses primarily on their failed attempts to achieve sobriety, a typical life of crime to support their habit, and in some positive cases, their re-acclimation back into society and the monstrous task of maintaining a drug free life. We almost never dissect what the family of an addict experiences. I felt moved to write this book to offer a deep and personal look into how drug addiction has detrimental effects on the family members of addicts as well, particularly their children. This is my story. Let's rummage through every human emotion from fear and terror, to hope and despair, and finally freedom.This book will help you embrace your own life's challenges and learn to shed the shame of circumstances you couldn't or can't control, as you navigate how to live with other people's choices.

Twenty-five more strange and fascinating true-life tales featuring the greatest city in the world.

In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictional portrayals of London's original 'Chinatown' as a den of vice and iniquity - prompted mass arrests, deportations, and mob violence. Even after the neighborhood was demolished and its inhabitants dispersed, the stereotype of the Chinese criminal mastermind and other 'yellow peril' images remained as permanent aspects of British culture. This painstakingly researched study traces the historical evolution of Chinese communities in Britain during this period, revealing their significance in the development of race as a category in British culture, law, and politics.

A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film studio when she 'consents' to perform in a series of films, thus legitimising acting for what some might have considered a 'low' art. Stories like these were the stuff of newspaper headlines in 1920s and reflected a 'craze' for the cinema. They also demonstrated radical changes in attitudes and values within society in the wake of World War I. Chris O'Rourke investigates the myths and material practices that grew up around film actors during the silent era. The book sheds light on issues such as the social and cultural reception of cinema, the participatory film culture expressed through fan magazines, instructional booklets and movie star competitions, and the working conditions encountered by actors behind-the-scenes of silent films. Drawing on extensive research and a wealth of archival materials, O'Rourke examines how dreams of stardom were fuelled and exploited in the interwar period, and reconstructs the personal narratives and experiences of the first generation to imagine making a living on screen.In doing so, he reveals a missing - and much sought after - piece of cinematic history to bring to life the developing industries, social attitudes and norms of a period of enormous change.