Damon DaVohn Hopkins is an author, poet, novelist, speaker, and overall lover of words. He's a native of Flint, MI, but now resides in the Dallas, TX area with his family.

In addition to a love for writing, Dame carries a passion for the black community and it shows in his work. Having been born and raised at ground-zero of the American auto industry's demise, he's intimate with the hobbling challenges faced by Urban America. That said, his words share an honesty that crosses race, gender, and social lines, and appeals to the hearts of readers from all walks of life.

His debut novel, 'The Sons of Shea', was published in 2008 under his pen name, Dame DaVohn. It has received outstanding ratings from reviewers and emphatic acclaim from readers. He's currently working on several projects that will surely inspire, challenge, and compel readers to higher planes of thought!

You can visit his personal website at: http://www.DameDavohn.com or contact him via Email: Dame@DameDavohn.com

The Sons of Shea
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Paperback: 371 pages
Publisher: Affinity Publishing (September 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0982038909
ISBN-13: 978-0982038901

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Time was hard to Stonegate, MI, the Rock as known to the locals. Her citizens had always led prosperous lives as the industrial aristocracy, but in the 1980's and 90's the factories closed and the corners opened ' crack came. The drugs gave way to lawlessness, lawlessness to murder, and murder to despair. Rapid were the days in which Stonegate died and the Rock was born.

Bishop, a gifted native son of Stonegate, left immediately after high school to study and learn more of life beyond the Rock. He was the only child of the noblest and strongest of men, an enigmatic ex-Black Panther that loved his people to no end and planted the same passion like strong trees in the soil of his son's soul. 'This is our community, our home, if it needs fixing, we must fix it ' building, we must build it ' policing, we must police it. But no one is coming to save black folk Son, it's just us!'

After six long years of absence Bishop's father concedes a short, but hard-fought battle with cancer, and the prodigious boy returns home a man. He was a young prince with a plan to free his queen from the dope and the murder, the crack and the crime'but most of all the despair. He recruits a group of his childhood friends and they wage a new type of war upon the blood-filled streets, the pimped-out pulpits, and the crooked politics of their fallen city. These young heroes start an incredible movement that restores hope to the hopeless.

And, as with all great stories, love pulses through the veins of this tale as the enigmatic leader of the struggle is eventually forced to choose between the two great loves of his life, the movement and the beautiful Ella ' a young, urban queen unlike any woman he'd ever known.
Finally, and tragically, the entire movement is threatened from within as love spirals into betrayal; and greed and jealousy circle the fledgling movement like ravenous wolves.

The arresting climax transcends race, gender, and culture in a way that delivers a great American epic that is sure to inspire you!

 

'Black Me'

by Dame DaVohn

Strong in body, powerful mind

Deep, funny, sexy, fine

Soothing smiles ' occasional tears

Courageously brave battling fears

Hopelessly silly, goofy, plain

Eloquent, articulate, grammatical ' slang

Rhythmic, smooth; charming and sweet

Poetic, romantic, stable, complete

Bald-headed, ebony'.perfectly brown

Beautifully skinned, Black - Proud!