A Song For Ms Henrietta

About the Book

Our story is an historical back to the community where we grew up revisiting the people and a community once rich with neighborly pride and resilience but has over time experienced more than its share of traumatic experiences like many of our inner city and marginalized communities are experiencing today. Our Story is “A Quest of Two Communities From The Same Neighborhood, One Revisiting its Rich History The Other Struggling to Shed its Negative Image in San Francisco’s Sunnydale Public Housing Projects Community” and The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development SF HOPE, VISIONS DREAMS HOPE TO REVITALIZE THE PHYSICAL IMAGE AND NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC In San Francisco’s Sunnydale Housing Projects. Our Story is an historical biographical political and social depiction of the obstacles that struggling communities face refusing to succumb to social and racial disparities placed on them. However so, our Story “We hope finds a place in the hearts of struggling communities and individuals seeking to empower themselves learning to rely on a Higher Power much greater than their will to survive and change their ways of living”

About the Author

DARRO VAN JEFFERSON, has been writing since his early days growing up in the Sunnydale Housing Projects. Darro credits his creative inspiration to his mother Victoria and sister Theresa who encouraged him to explore the world outside of his community, refusing to let his creative energy lay dormant and express himself through creative writing. He is a Playwright/Dramatist for his San Francisco based production company DooFunny Studios