Rise Up Sista

Two women. Two musical vibes. One song. Set in the UK and Jamaica, Rise Up, Sista is a story about female friendship and the power of music to change individual lives and popular culture that spans over fifty years. Mercy Mae Williams, a Jamaican reggae artist, and Annabelle Sinclair, a British rocker, meet as young women in London in 1963. It’s a heady era—cultural revolution and fresh musical genres explode on both sides of the Atlantic.

Will The Real Sista's Please Stand Up, is a book that will minister to the soul, spirit, mind, heart, feelings, and emotions of a woman. Women, you know how we like to impress the man in our life: we freshen up, spray on our favorite perfume, light candles, put on soothing music to set the mood, creating an atmosphere full of ambiance. Before reading this book, set the atmosphere with worship and praise. Become intimate with the Lord. Allow him to spiritually love you by impregnating you with his seeds. His word, will, purpose, and destiny will rest in your womb. In the ninth month of the spirit realm, you'll go into labor, pushing out each baby. One by One!!! Relax, he's given you a midwife: the Holy Spirit. Leslie A. Beamon is a native of Paterson, New Jersey. She is an educator in the Paterson Public School system. She holds a BA in Sociology/Anthropology with a certification in education and is currently pursuing her MA in Education Administration. Leslie is an anointed writer whom God has chosen for such a time as this to write under his prophetic anointing. Will The Real Sista's Please Stand Up is the first baby of many that God has impregnated her with. Her prayer is that women of all ages, stages, and walks of life come into the knowledge of who they are in God. Leslie's quote for all women is: "Do you, let nothing stop you from enjoying life!"

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Set in the UK and Jamaica, Rise Up, Sista is a story about female friendship and the power of music to change individual lives and popular culture that spans over fifty years. Mercy Mae Williams, a Jamaican reggae artist, and Annabelle Sinclair, a British rocker, meet as young women in London in 1963. It's a heady era-cultural revolution and fresh musical genres explode on both sides of the Atlantic.

".....I looked through the historical catalog depicting the classic American beauty and could not find an image of the Nubian Booty....." "....so I made an unrehearsed approach, but my mind went blind and I stumbled on my lines...." "......gritted my teeth in deference to Democracy and did hard, hard time at Fox, then hours and hours in detox at CNN and MSNBC...."

This incredible book of poetry tells stries of life and love. Many women, young and old face the same challenges talked about by the author. It has many poems of relationships, motherhood, marriage, heartbreak and much more.

Like a lot of women, blogger Osheta Moore loved the idea of shalom: God’s dream for a world that is whole, vibrant, and flourishing. But honestly: who's got the time? So one night she whispered a dangerous prayer: God, show me the things that make for peace… In Shalom Sistas, Moore shares what she learned when she challenged herself to study peace in the Bible for forty days. Taking readers through the twelve points of the Shalom Sistas’ Manifesto, Moore experiments with practices of everyday peacemaking and invites readers to do the same. From dropping “love bombs” on a family vacation, to talking to the coach who called her son the n-word, to spreading shalom with a Swiffer, Moore offers bold steps for crossing lines between black and white, suburban and urban, rich and poor. What if a bunch of Jesus-following women catch a vision of a vibrant, whole, flourishing world? What happens when Shalom Sistas unite? Free downloadable study guide available here.

2003 — Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award – The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women—her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language. Making comparisons and contrasts among them, she shows how, even within a single family, differences in age, educational opportunities, and social circumstances can lead to widely different abilities and comfort in using language to navigate daily life. Her research also adds a new dimension to our understanding of African American English, which has been little studied in relation to women.