BOOK RELEASE DATE: JUNE 10TH, 2025
BASED ON A TRUE STORY SET IN THE 1930'S ABOUT HOW A GROUP OF AFRICAN- AMERICAN WOMEN BURNED DOWN A MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY DEMANDING “DON’T SHOP WHERE YOU’RE NOT HIRED” ORGANIZING ECONOMIC UNIT
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Ruth and her family recently moved from the south to bustling Detroit, Michigan with aspirations of creating a business for themselves but when a meat packing plant fires all the black men in the community, The Detroit Housewives' League takes charge with demands of their own.
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During the 1930's in an area of Detroit called Black Bottom over 300 black businesses thrived but not without resentment. An auxiliary organization of the Booker T. Washington Trade Association was created by Fannie Peck with fifty women called The Detroit Housewives' League. An organization that grew to 10,000 members organizing black women to have the largest boycott of a meat factory in the United States. A story untold and unknown by many created economic unity in the black community.
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*Tuesday, JUNE 10th, 2025
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Poetry Book #WaterINJUSTICE shares how the Flint Water Crisis, racist policies, privatization of The Detroit Water System, gentrification, and capitalist have poisoned a majority
black city in America. Currently cities nation wide are seeing outbreaks of Hepatitis-A, which usually spread by eating food or drinking WATER contaminated with infected feces. It’s important our communities are aware of water injustices because today it’s Flint, tomorrow it could be everybody. Water is a Human Right!
Water Testing will resume 2024. For emergency water visit the water hotline.
Children's Coloring and Activity book #WaterINJUSTICE teaches children they deserve clean water.
VALLEY OF THE MOON is a collection of 47 poems that express the intricate space of love in different cycles just like the moon. In this valley the poet shares her intimate relationships of summer love while in this war we call life.
PLANDEMIC is a brilliant arrangement of 60 poems in verse describing the health crises, medical emergency, and injustices caused by systematic unfair policies on top of a national emergency called the coronavirus.
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Nzinga LeJeune
is a Detroit poet, author, screenwriter, and indie-film producer. In 2017 she wrote poetry book, children's book, and produced a documentary-short all titled #WaterINJUSTICE about the Flint Water Crisis and illegal Detroit Water Shutoffs. Her second poetry book is titled Plandemic and third titled Valley of the Moon. Her indie films include Check-In (about a friend who was murdered while teaching overseas and organs harvested), Black Fathers Matter, Sci-fi short-film Seventh Frequency, and upcoming feature boxing/crime/drama film GRATIOT. Currently a screenwriter on the new hit TV-Shows STREET LEGAL and STREET LEGAL SOUTH.
She is a graduate of Martin Luther King Jr., Sr. High School, Hampton University -BA degree in education, California State University-multi language learning, Marygrove College-MA degree in Social Justice, and in 2021 completed Harvard University's Women in Leadership program for Emerging Leaders.
Nzinga is CEO of Nzinga LeJeune Publishing and Films, Editor-in-Chief of Water!! Magazine. Teacher & Organizer for Detroit Independent Freedom Schools Movement, Founder and Organizer with over 100 members of the Hampton University Alumni Authors, member of KAN Co-Operative Book Store. Founder and Creative Director of Detroit’s Afrikan Town 313 indie-short Film Festival, a 2019 Petty Propolis Arts Fellow at the Historic Idlewild, and winner of the 2019 Maynor Biggers Artist Fund.
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