Message From the Author:

It is time for us to talk. There is absolutely no denying we African Americans are living in very difficult times. We are witnessing our youth seeking love and acceptance in all the wrong places. We are witnessing adults and parents feeling a sense of loss and fear, not knowing how to direct their children. We are witnessing socially tragic conditions with our homelessness, drugs, gangs, teen pregnancies, AIDS, divorces, racism, suicide, violence, all of these things trying to rip apart the closely knit physical and emotional ties of families and friends. We must not allow this to happen. I must tell you what I feel God is leading me to say in these book. Today is different from yesterday. The simple things that stay the same are the factors that help determine our endings. Whatever the crisis is, we must continue to have faith and unconditional love to help us survive the struggles presented before us. Don't detach yourself from your family or your community. You may be the key to helping the family or community change, if change is necessary. The strength is within you. You have to keep talking, listening and communicating. Remember, we are survivors, survivors of racial injustices, survivors of oppression. It's not enough to save yourself. Try and save others. In saving and educating one person you're touching fifty times one which equals keeping the Faith (50 x 1= Keeping the Faith).
Keesha L. McMillian