Lovolution: The Levels Of Love Rule Even the Darkest of Hearts

by Jesse Algeron Rhines

In middle school, Bradley and Yumi met at Rinky Dink bookstore and fell instantly in love. His first book store, Rinky Dink shocked Bradley because it had books even the library didn't. It was also a hangout for homeless veterans who suggested books and taught him about war and the world. College saw a depressed Bradley but showed him more of the world and of women--and they wrecked havoc.

170 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2020

About the author

Born in Washington DC I attended Yale University’s Summer High School and Transitional Year Program after failing the 12th grade. I worked as first janitor then photography instructor as I earned a BA at DC based Antioch College-BHP in 1974. I completed an MA in African American Studies at Yale in 1983 after teaching English with the YMCA in Asia and leading students in Mali, French West Africa with Operation Crossroads, Inc., in 1983. While at Yale I worked as an IBM Systems Engineer before earning a Film Production Certificate at NYU. I earned a Political Science MA at UCLA in 1986 and a UC Berkeley PhD in Ethnic Studies in 1993. I was Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the African American Studies Department at Rutgers University-Newark when Rutgers University Press published my dissertation, Black Film/White Money, in 1996. In June 2011 I self-published Black Harvard/Black Yale (https://www.createspace.com/3615992) with createspace.com and got a great review by the editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine: and have started again making West African Peanut Stew as I did on my return from Mali.