The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My ‘Unalienable Right’
By Peter J. Harris
Founder, The Black Man of Happiness Project
WINNER, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, 2015: “… brilliant … beautiful …funny … moving … [a book] to change people by working on something even deeper than anger: their inner joy, their love of life!”
$20 + $5 (first class postage and handling)
Peter J. Harris’ jazzy journal is full of unique, dynamic stories that range in scope from Thomas Jefferson’s era to the Digital Age in search of answers to the simple, startling question, What is a happy Black man? In powerful, poetic essays Harris explores his journey from childhood in Southeast D.C. to adulthood as a nationally published writer, educator, and respected cultural worker in LA.
The Vampire Who Drinks Gospel Music: The Stories of Sacred Flow and Sacred Song
By Peter J. Harris
Founder, The Black Man of Happiness Project
$15 + $5 (first class postage and handling)
From darkened movie houses filled with enthusiastic narrators, to the Washington, D.C., campus of Howard University, to covens illuminated by masterful art and hidden in plain sight off the coast of Georgia and outside Ile Ife in West Africa, Sechaba, the Vampire Who Drinks Gospel Music, is haunted by the footsteps of his nemesis, the fearless anthropologist Candace Stallings, whose mission is to rid the world of her enemy’s blasphemous hunger for African American sacred music. Death. Rebirth. History. Ceremony. All unfolding to a swirling, soulful soundtrack of powerful music! Will Sechaba ever learn to Shake and Finger Pop? What mixtape can Candace play to stop the vampire whose blood is spiked with the majesty of sacred flow and sacred song? Peter J. Harris weaves five interlocking stories with the eloquence of a poet, the joyfulness of Richard Pryor schooling Dracula on a midnight stroll, and reminds us why an inspired Terry McMillan included the title story in her seminal anthology Breaking Ice.
GRITT TUFF PLAY BOOK: Hard Core Wisdom for Young People
By Glenn Harris
Emmy-winning D.C. sportscaster and humanitarian
With Peter J. Harris
Founder, The Black Man of Happiness Project
$15 + $5 (first class postage and handling)
For over 30 years, Glenn has given inspiring, tough-love pep talks and speeches to thousands of young adults. GRITT TUFF PLAY BOOK distills his blend of round-the-way, hard core wisdom and humanitarian eloquence into a poetic ‘play book’ that fits into the back pocket of a middle schooler navigating peer pressure, a high school student’s backpack, or the briefcase of a dedicated mentor.
See You: The Curated Imagination of Peter J. Harris
By Peter J. Harris
Founder, The Black Man of Happiness Project
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See You is an intimate sampling of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction by Peter J. Harris, 2018 City of Los Angeles COLA Fellow, and author of The Black Man of Happiness: In Pursuit of My ‘Unalienable Right,’ called by judges for the 2015 American Book Award: “a brilliant … beautiful … funny … moving” book meant “to change people by working on something even deeper than anger: their inner joy, their love of life!”
Johnson Chronicles: Truth. My Penis. Tall Tales.
By Peter J. Harris
Founder, The Black Man of Happiness Project
Price: $15 + $5 (first class postage and handling)
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