Sister Souljah (born Lisa Williamson) was born in 1964 in New York City. She attended Cornell University's advanced placement summer program and Spain's University of Salamanca study-abroad program. She later majored in American history and African studies at Rutgers University. Her travels and lectures have taken her all over America, Europe, and Africa. In the mid-1980s, she founded, in cooperation with the United Church of Christ, the African Youth Survival Camp, located in Enfield, North Carolina, for children of homeless families. In 1992, her rap album, 360 Degrees of Power, and video, "Slavery's Back in Effect," catapulted her to national attention. She lives in New York with her husband and son.
The Sister Souljah is a good writer and storyteller. I enjoyed reading each of character in different stories but I want read more about them. Each of stories are short but I could related to each of them. I'm reading The Winter Coldest Ever now. Good read!!!
masterfully told. I recommend reading this book as an introduction to the books by this author. she is a dynamic storyteller able to take you for a journey in the lives of the characters that are fictitious yet seemingly real to the life of the men and women living in the projects of Brooklyn involved in sex, drugs and violence.
Sister Souljah writes about the toughest aspects of the African American lower classes. You will get thumped and you may learn a lot. Her writing is definitely outside my comfort zone and I am gonna say that it is way outside of yours.
I'm a huge fan and literally just wanted to get a peek into the next book of the Midnight collection. I couldn't put the first book down. A must read...
Anything this author writes is usually worth the read. Definitely page turning gold. Very detailed which gives you the ability to see and feel what the characters are going through.