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Street Gang ($8.99)
PTSD! Who, Me? ($7.99), and his songs are available at donaldbakeerbooks.com.
CRIPS - The Story of the L.
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His books: South Central L.
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He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1997.
He is, now, retired from teaching and lives in Inglewood, CA. for 30 years.
Hajji* Donald Bakeer, 77 and father to 9, has been a poet in Los Angeles for over 50 years and taught secondary school English in South Central L.
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Bakeer collaborated with Oliver Stone, Steve Anderson, and Warner Bros.
But, even more than that, the characters represent the rebellious spirits of Bunchy Carter, Stanley (Tookie) Williams, Ice T, Ice Cube, Tupac, Nipsey Hussle, and Sanyinka Shakur (aka Monster Cody), etc.
Many of the characters personify the collective spirit of the Original Crips/ O.
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LA Weekly.
The novel CRIPS by Don Bakeer corrects your assumptions about the gangs.
Tupac Shakur.
I loved the book and the movie.
Sentinel.
Bakeer\'s Story moves swiftly, and his writing is deft, Gayle Anthony, LA.
It is the Story of a father and son\'s triumph in the midst of America\'s most deadly Gang war.
Uprising (1992). from the Watts Rebellion (1965) to just prior to the days that sparked the L.
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Bobby Johnson in the movie), who evolves during those explosive years in South Central L.
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This is the Story of O.
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CRIPS is the Story of why nearly 10,000 people were destined to get killed during the 1970\'s, 80\'s and 90\'s in a social explosion that began in L.
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