Contemporary+-+Social+Issues

Death, addiction, the stuff of life goes here.

Getting the News~ Jesse

The only thing I know for sure is that my mother couldn`t have said my big brother, Jaron, is dead. -What is goodbye? -Nikki Grimes -811 GRI - -Capri W.

Paint Me Like I Am Delia Garcia Why don't paint me Like I am? Paint me happy, Laughing, running down a path of happiness. - Alex H.

I Wouldn't Thank You For A Valentine A Happy Childhood Eulalia Bernard I used to enjoy peeling oranges keeping the skin intact. I used to enjoy picking over rice throwing out the husks. 808.81 I Nick H.

Emmett Till's name still catches in my threat Emmett Till A fourteen-year-old stutterer, in the South to visit relatives and to be taught the family's ways. His mother had finally bought that White Sox cap; she'd made swear an oath to be careful around white folks. She'd told him the truth of many a Mississippi anecdote: Some white folks have blind souls. 811NEL -Bobbianne J.

What is Goodbye?, Nikki Grimes, 811 GRI Why did Jaron have to die? I asked till my lips burned dry Mommy sighed and shook her head. "God scoops up the good," she said. Then, from now on, I won't be. Hear that, God? Don't come for me.  -Ne'Ericka C.