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Excerpts

Foreword by Tavis Smiley	
Introduction	

Part 1: Blue Rage
	
	1	Born in the Bayou	
	2	South Central	
	3	Sibling Feud	
	4	Hallelujah, Hallelujah	
	5	The Art of Dys-education	
	6	Voodoo Medicine	
	7	Stepfamily	
	8	Adolescent Blues	
	9	Point of No Return	
	10	The Institutional Shuffle	
	11	Seeds of a Gang	
	12	Crip Walk	
	13	The Criplettes	
	14	Tookie¹s Law	
	15	Boys Republic to Factor Brookins	
	16	Mr. Buddha! Mr. Buddha!	
	17	Compton Ambassador	
	18	Straddling the Fence	
	19	Invincibility Shot Down	
	20	The Big Comeback	
	21	The Old Stomping Ground	
	22	Float On, Float On, Float On	
	23	Schemes and Things	
	24	Living the Funk	
	25	The Longest Day	
	26	Rage of Another Kind	
	
Part 2: Black Redemption

	27	The Missing Years	
	28	Inside the Beast	
	29	Things Happen	
	30	Change Will Come	
	31	Trials, Tribulations	
	32	Let There Be Light	
	33	Human Angel	283
	34	Moto Ndani (The Fire Within)	
	35	Redemption . . . Step Forward	
	36	A Woman Called Mother Africa	
	37	Black Phoenix Rising	
	38	Sons of the Father	

Afterthoughts	
Epilogue by Barbara Becnel	
Special Acknowledgments	
The Tookie Protocol for Peace: A Local Street Peace Initiative