I wasn’t supposed to make it.
Not from group homes.
Not from lockdown units.
Not from addiction, incarceration, or the streets.
And definitely not from a bloodline that was targeted before I ever had a name.
But God had other plans.
Blakes: The Bloodline They Tried to Erase is the unapologetic, journal-style memoir of Derick Blakes—born into chaos,...
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