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No ashes in the fire : coming of age black and free in America by Darnell L. Moore is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they assumed he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist, a leader in the Movement for Black
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- Author
- Darnell L. Moore
- Publisher
- Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781568588346
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Social Science, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (526 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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