Category: homeless

DSD Podcast Radio: Real Talk, Real People On Real Issues

  Real Talk On Real Issues – Be Heard  Dial In: 657-383-0995 Every Sunday DSD 14 Real Talk, Real People on Real DSD Podcast. Keeping it Real & Dirty – Kick it with Scout Smith, Christy Harvey, HarlemATL Show Topic: “It’s The Economy, Stupid.” On Down South Dirty Podcast. (Archived) 11/14/14 – Sunday @ 1:30pm

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A Watermelon Tear

Never cry a watermelon on a pea brain.  Our decisions determine our outcome. What you can tolerate you cannot change If you make only $7 and you settle for only $7 you will never make $8. Staying with a man that beats you only equates to more beatings. I bet he’s telling you he loves you

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A Green Card & A Free Ride

I always knew one day she was going to leave.  I know who I am.  I never knew who she was.  After the smoke clears it was all for a green card and a free ride. They want to leave and live in another the country. Let it go She has the need to be

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Oh Shhh!

Lil man ordered his usual two 12” Tuna Subs on flat bread, toasted. He even had the nerve to have them put spinach and honey mustard on both sandwiches. “Put some pickles on dat muthaphucka n shyt. Ya’ll be wildin, countin pickles WTF”. He knew he was wrong more like out of control but bowed

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Da Hood Lyfe

Tae Boog wasn’t eleven years old before he sold his first bundle of D-packs of heroin and Black tops of crack cocaine. Dope was the main candy the hood junkies in Harlem savored and shop was definitely open. Tae Boogie started out as a look out for the E.G.S. crew (Eastside Goon Squad) on 129th

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Tre Crinack

I often wonder about the monotonous lifestyle some people live and encounter. I consciously ponder more about women that inherit Sisyphus Lot and how heavy the weight of reality must have been for my neighbor Tracey, a single mother of three and pregnant, again. This woman played a vital role in my youth from a

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Rah

It was a nice dress that she was almost wearing.  She’d turned her back against family to be amongst slick folk; searching for a better life.  As betrayal trumped out love Honey bailed when times had gotten hard. Rah The New York City Subway was home to Lil Man. Child born a passenger on the

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