Holy Ground and Hood Streets: African American Poetry for the Soul and the Struggle

"We are the testimony-walking between the altar and the avenue."

Holy Ground and Hood Streets is a soul-stirring collection of African American poetry that walks boldly through the intersections of faith and fire, praise and pain, beauty and burden. Written by Reverend Chantain M. Lennon, founder of In His Heart Christian Book Ministries, these poems don't just rhyme-they remember, resurrect, and roar.

Each piece is a prophetic mirror, reflecting the lives of our people-from grandmothers praying in kitchens to brothers writing psalms behind bars, from daughters in boardrooms to sons beneath streetlights. This is the poetry of the sanctuary and the sidewalk, the hallelujah and the heartbreak, the sacred survival of Black life in America.

This book speaks to every soul who's ever wrestled with identity, legacy, injustice, and hope-and still chose to praise. You don't read this collection-you feel it, hear it, and rise with it.

Whether you're seasoned in faith, searching in struggle, or standing in your becoming, Holy Ground and Hood Streets will walk with you-verse by verse, testimony by testimony.

In His Heart,

Reverend Chantain M Lennon