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Street Lit
Urban fiction, also known as Street lit, is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape. Urban fiction was is a genre written mostly by African Americans. In his famous essay “The Souls of Black Folk,” W. E. B. Du Bois discussed how a veil separated the African American community from the outside world.
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I want to say at the outset that I have become ill, insane, as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was, and I am getting better all time.
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This group is for those classy women with a little bit of ratchet in them or gentlemen with a hi…more
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Adult and YA Street Lit and urban fiction blog. Reader's advisory, collection development resour…more
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I am L. K. Pinder.
I am a Spoken Word Artist.
I write poetry inspired by urban fiction books.
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Ask me anything you like about any of the books I’ve written. No questions are off limits!!
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