Life is complicated for a group of five friends living in the inner city. Tammy is starting to feel the pressure of being a single mother of two girls. Chris, her kids' father has been incarcerated for the past five months, not making Tammy's situation any better. Lamar and Falisha have crossed the lines of their friendship after having sex for the first time, and Kim is in her own world lately. She is so focused on her job that she really doesn't...

Kenyatta has it good. He's got the ladies, the clubs, and the guns. The only problem is the shady dealers who are running the drugs in Detroit. It's time to get them out, even if it means upping the ante and making a deal with the men in blue. Once the plan is in place, nobody's safe, everyone's a target, and the streets are about to flood with blood.--Back cover.

An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.

Stephanie decides to do something to get rid of crime and violence on her street, leading to a transformation of her school and neighborhood.