Books by Dee Freeman
Poetry
She Wrote I: Oh, Magnify Him /
Poetry She Wrote II: Reflections of the Heart
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Poetry She Wrote III: Love Ever Flowing
Oceans
of Love: To Us From Us
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Ain't I Somebody Too?
By Dee Freeman
SAY, What are you thinking, and can
you tell me why
Those thoughts are running through
your mind?
I can surmise from the look on your
face,
What you're thinking about me is not very kind.
Hold on now, just think about this
life,
God made me and the same God made
you,
So why you think you're better than
me?
Ain't I Somebody Too?
Your look is conveying dislike. Are
you thinking
That I should not be here?
Your glare, frown, and the shake of
your head
Awaken in me a once dreadful fear.
Take a minute now, and just look at
yourself,
Who the h_ _ _ gave all the power
on earth to you?
I was placed here as well, and I
will no longer be denied,
What do you think now, Ain't I Somebody Too?
You always belittle me with your
cruel words,
Speaking them without giving much
thought.
Saying how things should still now
be
The same as when I was sold and bought.
Hey, let's look at things from my
perspective;
The constitution says I am equal to
you.
Just give me my inalienable rights,
I deserve them now,
For, I know, I Am Somebody Too!!
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Source:
Oceans
of Love: To Us From Us
by Dee Freeman
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Delores King-Freeman, (Dee to family),
is a motivated and compelling poet, author, producer and host,
who is using her love, skills and creativity to help readers
enjoy words and rhythmic rhyme.
She left the south during the sixties to follow her
dream, which proved extremely elusive. Now, finally catching and living that dream, she happily
immerses herself in her passion-writing.
Freeman has previously published well received books of
poetry entitled
Oceans
of Love: To Us From Us and
Poetry
She Wrote I: Oh, Magnify Him. |
Both have been placed in the school system
and libraries around town.
She has had a number of poems appear in magazines,
anthologies and new papers where some have been recognized with
awards for their inspirational, even motivational message.
She was presented with a commendation for the
City and City Council during Black History Month in 2005.
She continues to provide the Lansing State Journal
with an article, book review or word of inspiration on a monthly
basis. She co-hosts “poetry slams” held at various locations
throughout the Greater Lansing area.
Freeman looks forward to expanding her
Poetree-N-Motion TV program which shares information of
community events, history tidbits, book reviews and has guests
with current community issues. It airs in Lansing on Comcast channel 16 -Thursday @ 3:30PM
and East Lansing channel 30 WELM on Tuesday @ 7:00PM. She is also a talented musical lyricist, hoping to have her
work recorded in the near future.
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Presently, Freeman is in the completion stage
of her first fiction novel-a project in conjunction with a movie
producer. This
novel—Wild,
Untamed Michigan: The Way It Was—is
scheduled to hit the stores in early or mid 2006, with the
second of the “Poetry, She Wrote” series—following
close behind.
Freeman thoroughly enjoys writing and sharing
her poetry through presentations at special annual luncheons,
tributes honoring the leadership of community and churches, and
other venues throughout the region.
She honestly feels her words will benefit all who read
them-gently touching, softly soothing, delightfully awakening,
enthusiastically illuminating and fervently healing.
As a grandparent of three grandsons, Freeman
sees the need for help within the community.
She volunteers for readings and events throughout the
Lansing School District. She
works on projects with the Michigan Million Women Movement that
sprang out of the MWM (Million Women March) of 1997.
She’s a member of several supporting organizations,
such as Delores Thornton’s Marguerite Press, Disilgold Soul
and Publishing and Sisterhood of The Written Word. She also
sings with a 35 voice group, who continues to keep the Negro
Spirituals alive-The Earl Nelson Singers-directed by Verna
Holley.
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An alumnus of Northwood University of Midland
and former Financial Analyst for General Motors, Freeman
continues to reside in Lansing, Michigan with her husband,
Attorney Myron S. Freeman Sr.
She is proud of her three adult children, one of whom has
attained stardom as an actress on Broadway.
Dee Freeman, Poet, Author, Speaker
and Host! / 517 321-3122 /
www.deepoette.com / deedkfreeman@yahoo.com
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
By Randall Kennedy
Among the best things about
The Persistence of the Color Line
is watching Mr. Kennedy hash through the
positions about Mr. Obama staked out by
black commentators on the left and
right, from Stanley Crouch and Cornel
West to Juan Williams and Tavis Smiley.
He can be pointed. Noting the way Mr.
Smiley consistently “voiced skepticism
regarding whether blacks should back
Obama” . . .
The
finest chapter in
The Persistence of the Color Line
is so resonant, and so personal, it
could nearly be the basis for a book of
its own. That chapter is titled
“Reverend Wright and My Father:
Reflections on Blacks and Patriotism.”
Recalling some of the criticisms of
America’s past made by Mr. Obama’s
former pastor, Mr. Kennedy writes with
feeling about his own father, who put
each of his three of his children
through Princeton but who “never forgave
American society for its racist
mistreatment of him and those whom he
most loved.” His father distrusted
the police, who had frequently called
him “boy,” and rejected patriotism. Mr.
Kennedy’s father “relished Muhammad
Ali’s quip that the Vietcong had never
called him ‘nigger.’ ” The author places
his father, and Mr. Wright, in
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The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
By
Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Price of Civilization is a book
that is essential reading for every
American. In a forceful, impassioned, and
personal voice, he offers not only a searing
and incisive diagnosis of our country’s
economic ills but also an urgent call for
Americans to restore the virtues of
fairness, honesty, and foresight as the
foundations of national prosperity. Sachs
finds that both political parties—and many
leading economists—have missed the big
picture, offering shortsighted solutions
such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to
address complex economic problems that
require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that
we have profoundly underestimated
globalization’s long-term effects on our
country, which create deep and largely unmet
challenges with regard to jobs, incomes,
poverty, and the environment. America’s
single biggest economic failure, Sachs
argues, is its inability to come to grips
with the new global economic realities.
Sachs describes a political system that has
lost its ethical moorings, in which
ever-rising campaign contributions and
lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the
citizenry. . . . Sachs offers a plan to turn
the crisis around. He argues persuasively
that the problem is not America’s abiding
values, which remain generous and pragmatic,
but the ease with which political spin and
consumerism run circles around those values.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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