Melody C. Miller
Author
Description
In a life that has spanned 92 creative years, Ruth Weiss is one of the most influential writers of the Beat Generation. Born to a Jewish family during the rise of Nazism, as a 10-year-old refugee, she escaped to the United States. ruth became a Jazz troubadour exemplifying the zeitgeist of Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco. In the 1950s, she opened up and organized the first poetry readings in North Beach cafes and bars, giving a platform to...
Author
Description
In the United States alone, hundreds of thousands of children are being enslaved and sold for sex. These children are then sold an average of 15 times a day, 6 days a week, totaling 14,040 sex acts a year. The fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world today, it generates $9.8 billion. California is one of the biggest hotspots for domestic and international human trafficking because of its large metropolitan population, international...