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Dedra Muhammad

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Born

in Pontiac, Michigan, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Psychology

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Author Dr. Dedra Muhammad is an independent education and writing consultant. She worked as a public school educator and college counselor for over two decades. Earlier in her career, she served as a counselor for students in grades K-8 in Indiana and Georgia. Her curriculum vitae includes producing programs to help diverse groups of seniors from rural, low-income, and urban areas raise millions of dollars in scholarships every year.
Dr. Muhammad has been immersed amidst the behaviors of more than 250,000 students during her career. She is steeped in knowledge of trends in education, system barriers, and struggles some teenagers endure when it comes to making the most out of high school.
She has worked as an administrator in a homeless faci Author Dr. Dedra Muhammad is an independent education and writing consultant. She worked as a public school educator and college counselor for over two decades. Earlier in her career, she served as a counselor for students in grades K-8 in Indiana and Georgia. Her curriculum vitae includes producing programs to help diverse groups of seniors from rural, low-income, and urban areas raise millions of dollars in scholarships every year.
Dr. Muhammad has been immersed amidst the behaviors of more than 250,000 students during her career. She is steeped in knowledge of trends in education, system barriers, and struggles some teenagers endure when it comes to making the most out of high school.
She has worked as an administrator in a homeless facility; she has done extensive work in domestic violence awareness and prevention. The musicals and stage plays Dr. Muhammad produced have themes permeating cultural diversity, education, abuse prevention, predatory lending --and other issues plaguing families and societies. She has worked with artists and groups such as WHODINI and Chuck D. from Public Enemy #1 to bring awareness to challenging problems like gun violence, date rape, land grabs, and crimes against the elderly.
She is the mother of twins Shafi and Hanif and a widow after being married to Phillip Muhammad, her beloved husband, for 25 years. Dr. Muhammad is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Indiana University (IPFW), and Capella University. Dr. Muhammad is also the organizer of the Rising South Literacy School.
Dr. Muhammad has been referred to as an “Artistic Genius” and as “The Good Doctor.”
Her 5-star novel, “Hidden Princess: The Rebirth of Making Mary,” is the first in an underway trilogy.

P{ersonal Message from Dr. Muhammad:

Greetings, Everyone!
I was born Dedra Lori Bradley in Pontiac, Michigan. I loved...I mean I completely loved to read as a youngster. I can recall staring at the tall bookshelves in our library, imagining each book as a jeweled piece of fruit I could pluck at will. Nothing was off-limits.
Once, I was in K-Mart with my mom whenever I spotted a book called "How to be the Perfect Liar" or something like that. I thumbed through it filled with amazement since it was absolutely creative and hilarious. My mother refused to purchase the likes of it. Later, she went back without me to buy it. She stated she had promised herself that if any of her children ever took an interest in reading, she would support them.
As a member of my high school's track team, I would huddle in the back seats of buses reading Black romance magazines with my friends. Things were innocent in those days. I read everything from entire encyclopedia sets to the Falconhurst and Mandingo series...all the way to everything by Donald Goins, Charlotte Bronte, John Grisham, Richard Wright,
Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison....oh! The genres were endless! However, my idea to author a was because I merely wanted to get a hidden story told. The only way to do that would be if I wrote that story. Hidden Princess is a fun and spectacular literary project.

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	Hidden Princess: The Rebirth of Making Mary 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Mary 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Mom Wants This, But I Want That: High School Planning Guide for Educators, Teachers, and Students it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What I Learned from my Near Rape

What I Learned from my Near Rape

I was only 13 years old when I survived an attempted rape. I didn't view it as surviving a near-rape - instead, my focus was on surviving my reputation and sparing myself a butt whipping. The names have all been changed to describe my experience. Somehow, my friend, Zetta, would be hosting an unsupervised birthday party that exceeded the limits at her father's neig Read more of this blog post »

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Dedra’s Quotes

“For a period of more than a hundred years African warrior nationalists, mostly kings, who had never worn a store-bought shoe or heard of a military school, out-maneuvered and out-generaled some of the finest military minds of Europe.”
― J.A. Rogers, World's Great Men of Color, Volume I

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“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.”
― Will Durant

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“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
—Susan L. Taylor, journalist”
― Susan L. Taylor, Lessons in Living

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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

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