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I was born on the westside in 1954 at Cook County Hospital. I grew up in Cabrini Green. I attended Jenner Elementary, Cooley UGC, Wells Sr High, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle where I majored in Spanish and minored in Education. I have a diploma in Computer Programming.
I am an award winning columist for the Austin Weekly News. Initially I was offered the opportunity to write for the paper twice a month. After reading my columns for several years, then featured columist Frank Lipscomb stepped down and allowed me to take over that position. I now am the featured columist writing 52 times a year about local politics and issues directly related to the Chicagoland area. I recently was approached by OnixLink.Com to write for them. My columns caused the owner to redo and rethink his writer sections to now have a featured area for us. My focus at OnixLink is on society, news and politics.
I moved to Austin in 1989 when I purchased a home here. I have two children.
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A BILLION DOLLARS?
When was the last time a book made you "laugh out loud"? What about a book that was so good, you didn't want the story to end? Billion Dollar Winner - the novel does all that and a whole lot more!
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Billion Dollar Winner Synopsis
Meet Valencia (Val) Banks Freeman. Chicagoan, WestSider, Malcolm X College graduate, Owner-Publisher of BlackSide Press, the largest community newspaper in the city, Community Activist and winner of one billion dollars from Lotto-50 - the first entire All-Fifty-States lottery. What? An activist winning the lottery? How can that be? True Activists don’t buy lottery tickets. They protest against it.
If you ever listened to black talk radio or seen the activists on television, then you know that they always have all the answers. But seldom do they ever have the money to fix the problems.
Billion Dollar Winner tells the story of what happens when one of the main individuals who protested the loudest against the Lotto-50 lottery game turns out to win the very lottery she so actively disparaged. Will Val remain true to her activist nature? Or will the love of money which is at the root of all evil change her and make her the hypocrite everyone calls her when they find out she won the money? And just how did someone who never bought a lottery ticket in her entire life come to possess it to begin with?
Billion Dollar Winner is the first novel from the award winning journalist Arlene P. Jones of the Austin Weekly News. This is Arlene’s first exploration into fiction and she has hit the ball right out of the park. The story is fast paced, funny, thought provoking and just plain enjoyable
If you ever listened to black talk radio or seen the activists on television, then you know that they always have all the answers. But seldom do they ever have the money to fix the problems.
Billion Dollar Winner tells the story of what happens when one of the main individuals who protested the loudest against the Lotto-50 lottery game turns out to win the very lottery she so actively disparaged. Will Val remain true to her activist nature? Or will the love of money which is at the root of all evil change her and make her the hypocrite everyone calls her when they find out she won the money? And just how did someone who never bought a lottery ticket in her entire life come to possess it to begin with?
Billion Dollar Winner is the first novel from the award winning journalist Arlene P. Jones of the Austin Weekly News. This is Arlene’s first exploration into fiction and she has hit the ball right out of the park. The story is fast paced, funny, thought provoking and just plain enjoyable