Author Writes a Book for Ex-Cons to Start Businesses

from AOL Black Voices 

In the first book published by her New York-based Resilience Multimedia, Sheila Rule delivers much-needed information to a segment of society that has long been ignored: the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. In 'Think Outside The Cell: An Entrepreneur's Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated' by Joseph Robinson, readers learn vital information, including how to overcome obstacles that convicted felons face while trying to reenter society and find work.
Rule, who worked at The New York Times for 30 years before her recent retirement, was spurred to start her publishing company after writing to the incarcerated as a volunteer for the Riverside Church Prison Ministry. With funding from the Ford Foundation, she plans to publish next year the 'Think Outside the Cell' book series featuring real-life stories by the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated and their families. Rule takes time to talk about the book with AOL Black Voices.
AOL Black Voices: How did you come up with the idea for the book?
Sheila Rule: Joe's book has been published amid renewed efforts to help the formerly incarcerated-who are disproportionately black and Latino-successfully reenter society. But Joe believes that the reentry programs being developed, while commendable, too often focus on finding jobs in a nation where, according to a Princeton University study, it is easier for a white person with a felony conviction to get a job than for a black person who has never been arrested. Joe believes that "Think Outside the Cell" presents a largely unexplored option-entrepreneurship-that can help give men and women leaving prison a realistic second chance

 

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Something Positive for a Change.. Hill Harper has a New Book!

Actor Hill Harper has a new book out Titled "Letters to a Young Sister" which is a sequel to his first book "Letters to a Young Brother" which came out in 2007. The book is a positive outlook to young ladies futures and defying their own destiny, something much needed in the world today! This would be a great book for yourself, your daughter, or any young woman in your life! Check out the synopsis below and support:

Letters to a Young Sister brings Hill Harper's new vision for facing tough issues and becoming the architect of your own life to young women, such as:

• Creating an authentic image that is as unique as your fingerprint

• Confronting racism and sexism

• Boys, sex, and responsibility

• Playing to win

• Avoiding credit card addiction

• Turning dreams into reality

Following a format similar to the one in his previous book, and featuring an eight-page color photo insert, Letters to a Young Sister unfolds as a collection of letters in which Harper delivers straight talk, interspersed with questions answered in the form of e-mails written by well-known, accomplished women. With the voice of an older sibling, Harper offers stirring encouragement in each chapter and captures the spirit he conveys at each of his public-speaking events, whose audiences have ranged from church groups to middle-school students to graduating classes at Harvard, Columbia, and Howard University.

Hiding in Hip Hop... The Movie... Errrrgh

Terrence Dean author of Hiding in Hip Hop ( the gay man's bible to who's doing whose man in the industry) is coming out with a film. Check out the trailer below:



I ain't mad at him but if it's anything like the book I'm NOT impressed! Dust yourself off and try again T. Not for nothing but "How you doin"!