{"product_id":"9781479716951","title":"If I Should Die Tonight: The Untold Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e     At age twelve, Lucinda is the mother of a one-year-old half white\/black baby after being brutally raped. After Ray Shawn is born; he constantly hears and     sees sights and sounds of racism, hatred and insults directed at him and his mother. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     When their lives are threatened and all hell breaks loose because three “good ole boys” are about to stand trial for attacking Lucinda; baby girls only     option is to take little Ray, and jet from the warm conditions of their small hometown to avoid the murderous claws of a mob made up of a few of Alabama’s     most racists. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     She must also avoid the blood dripping branches of Jim Crow’s “hang a nigger” tree. Ten years later in a housing project near Boston, Lucinda is murdered     and little Ray becomes a hustler at age fifteen at the height of the AIDS epidemic. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     As he watches his boys being taken out by the disease, he realizes that he’s about to become a statistic also, but he develops a desire while in prison to     eventually tell their stories. After becoming a follower of Louis Farrakhan while doing an eight year stretch, he no longer carries within him the hate and     revenge that had overtaken his mind, body and soul for whites. And his desire to take out white men and continue to hustled white women as revenge for his     mother’s death had all but vanished by the time he’s released \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e     He’s now on a mission to clean up his community and save his young brothers and sisters, and to keep them from following in his path as a street hustler     whose only mission was to degrade women and destroy their integrity. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107645538544,"sku":"9781479716951","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479716951_p0.jpg?v=1763617069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479716951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}