Download or read book Po H# on Dope to PhD written by Elaine Richardson and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There was a time when Elaine Richardson was one of 'the Negroes everybody pointed to as the Negroes you didn't want to become.' The title of this book is no metaphor or allusion, but a literal shorthand for a remarkable, unpredictable journey. She inherits a plain way of talking about horrific pain from a mother who seemed impossible to shock. The way too fast way she grew up was and is too common, but her will to remap her destiny is uncommon indeed. To call her story inspiring would be itself too plain a thing, hers is a heroic life." -dream Hampton, writer and filmmaker