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Nov 12, 2004 · As a black teenager going to junior high in a white neighborhood, Kemp became acutely aware of the racial tension and violence bubbling up in New York (think Bernard Goetz and Howard Beach and crack cocaine).
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Nov 9, 2019 · The shooting : a memoir. by. Powers, Kemp. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Powers, Kemp, African American journalists -- Biography, African American boys -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography, Teenagers and death, Firearms accidents. Publisher.
Nov 12, 2004 · As a black teenager going to junior high in a white neighborhood, Kemp became acutely aware of the racial tension and violence bubbling up in New York (think Bernard Goetz and Howard Beach and crack cocaine). This, along with an adolescent interest in guns, changed Kemp's life forever.
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Jan 1, 2005 · THE SHOOTING. A MEMOIR. by Kemp Powers ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 2005. Sparely written, often casual, but powerful. bookshelf. shop now. From award-winning journalist Powers, a debut memoir considering a youth lost to a firearms accident.
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THE SHOOTING: A Memoir. Kemp Powers, . . Thunder's Mouth, $22 (224pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-320-4. One fine day in April 1988, Powers, a 14-year-old Brooklyn honors student, came home from school...
The Shooting: A Memoir - Anna’s Archive. English [en], pdf, 3.2MB, the_shooting_a_memoir.pdf. The Shooting: A Memoir 🔍. Thunder's Mouth Press, First Edition, 2004. Kemp Powers 🔍. “Kemp Powers was a good kid, an honors student, raised by a single mother in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s.
A disturbing but insightful memoir retraces the life of Kemp Powers, a "good kid" whose fascination with guns leads to an accidental shooting that takes the life of his best friend and alters the course of his life forever.
