PSYCHEDELIC SHACKS: An Illustrated New York City Shelter Memoir and Exposé Inspired by Dante’s Alighieri’s Divine Comedy Paperback – June 16, 2019

"Psychedelic Shacks" is a euphemism for New York City Homeless Shelters, where 75,000 members of our collective families reside. The title was inspired by the Temptations 1970 hit song on the Motown label entitled "Psychedelic Shack." Psychedelic Shacks aspires to be "The Second American Bible." The first was Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly," the 1852 anti-slavery novel that exposed America's shameful past. Curl your body into your favorite reading chair, strap yourself in and prepare to embark on a 3-Year Odyssey through History, both Glorious and Inglorious, The Dark Wood of Error, Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, and The South Bronx, while searching for Human Reason and Divine Knowledge, and exposing Fraud, Corruption and Neoslavery in 6 New York City DHS Shelters-where DJ The Blend Master, the brilliant actor and comedian Grouch, the music genius Polite Delite, prodigy Judea the Preacher, the luminous Creed Da King, and 35 other Extraordinary Men share their Profiles, Art, Poetry, Rap, Photography, Philosophies, Personal Stories, a Book Excerpt, and Shelter Theater. You will meet baseball immortals Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, John Henry "Pop" Lloyd and Oscar Charleston, Civil War Hero Robert Smalls, "Wa Tho Huk"-America's Greatest Athlete, Medgar Evers and His Idea, Blues Master Robert Johnson, Jean-Michel Basquiat-America's Greatest Painter, Native American Heroes Sitting Bull and Si Tanka, Michael Donald-whose tragic end resulted in the Destruction of the KKK, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Master Drum Teacher John Parker, Italian Poet Dante Alighieri, and your guides; The Angels James Brown and Amy Winehouse, and celebrated author Frank King. Read with a light, enjoy and Stay Woke. Read more