#YBA Young Black & American: The 21st Century Guide to Surviving Thriving

Due to a growing concern regarding the guidance young black Americans (#YBAs) aren t receiving in everyday finances, legal issues, and cultural history, Dallas native Porscha Kelley set out to create a movement in teaching modern principles of survival. In #YBA, readers will gain: #Financial Guidelines & Structure (introduction to budgeting, credit card use, taxes, retirement strategies, entrepreneurial tactics, and an analysis of Black Economics) #Criminal/Legal Insight (tackling police brutality, understanding how #YBA s rights are restricted systematically, and a behind the bars view of the prison system by James L. McKellar ) #Life Applications (exploring college and trade options for building careers, healing emotional wounds, dealing with relationships and teen sex, and embracing their own creativity) #Cultural History (gaining a deeper insight to their African connectedness, a clear look at religion from a worldly respective, and recognizing and analyzing invisible racism) This book starts an extremely relevant narrative regarding the conditions and environments that many urban #YBAs face, and engages the reader to evoke real-time solutions to generational poverty, dysfunctional familial situations, and personal doubts. As a guide, this collection of conversations allows the reader to assess, analyze, deduce their own opinions (minus the political agenda of mainstream media), and pull together their own solutions.