Read Excerpts from Books by Johnny Barnes

Each month, our readers are invited to click on “Commentary,” then “Speak” and read excerpts from books either in the making or complete by Living With The Law Editor and Publisher Johnny Barnes. This month features Black, a semi-realistic, semi-surrealistic, semi autobiographical story about what growing up Black meant through the lens of the author. Black takes you on a fast paced journey through the life of one Black man who could be any Black man.…  

Law, War & Politics

By Johnny Barnes

I have studied law, and I have studied war and I have studied politics; and I have come to regard them as one in the same.

Like water and oil, the elements of each are separate and distinct. Yet, put them together, and they join. To the untrained eye, when mixed, they remain detached and discreet.…