Books Details
Author : Darnell L. Moore Pages : 6 pages Publisher : Hachette Audio Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B07D3XNH6X ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
When Darnell L. Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood
tried to set him on fire when he was walking home from school. Darnell was tall and
awkward and constantly bullied for being gay. That afternoon, one of the boys
doused him with gasoline and tried lighting a match. It was too windy, and luckily
Darnell's aunt arrived in time to grab Darnell and pull him to safety. It was not the last
time he would face death. What happens to the black boys who come of age in
neglected, poor, heavily policed, and economically desperate cities that the War on
Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live, love, and grow
up? Darnell was raised in Camden, NJ, the son of two teenagers on welfare struggling
to make ends meet. He explored his sexuality during the height of the AIDS epidemic,
when being gay was a death sentence. He was beaten down and ignored by white
and black America, by his school, and even his church, the supposed place of
sanctuary. He
