Seeing the world in black and white…

When Sam Hicks became the first Black attorney in the public defender’s office in Utica, New York, he was stepping into the unknown. Coming from a background marked by poverty, he understood the devastating impact of violent crime on the Black community. With his own struggles with anger and trauma, Sam now faces the daily challenge of defending young Black clients and others who are caught in a cycle of violence and despair on the city streets.

As his personal and professional worlds collide, Sam confronts the insidious whispers that Black skin signifies inferiority and servitude. Can he find a way to break the cycle of generational poverty, incarceration and premature death?

Cursed Black is Ed Thompson’s compelling Christian drama about Black-on-Black crime in America and the criminal justice system. AMAZON

As if the life of a Black attorney in the public defender’s office wasn’t already hard enough, Sam Hicks’ road to redemption hits a rough patch when most of his cases are re-assigned to a racist judge who clearly has it out for him and the poverty-stricken men and women he represents in court every day. Admittedly, Sam has made great strides since becoming a Christian, but some of the old demons from his childhood simply refuse to go away, and he continues to struggle against old belief systems about race and his identity.

What if he’s never able to fully change his thinking or to trust God in all things? AMAZON

For Sam Hicks, everything got harder- not easier- after he gave his life to Christ. Almost overnight, he suffers an unexpected loss in his family, his wife faces a difficult and potentially life-threatening pregnancy, uncertainty in his new job at a law firm constrains him, and there’s a major sex scandal in the small church that he has grown to love, involving the pastor, whom he has befriended.

Sam is crippled emotionally as seemingly everything is working together to bring him to a place of surrender – almost. Backed into a corner, he decides to fight with all of his might against the prince of darkness one battle at a time.

Out of Darkness is Ed J. Thompson’s sobering and far-reaching final installment of the 3- part series, “In Living Color.” AMAZON