In the daily work of strengthening and preparing inner-city African American families to engage actively in the work of strengthening neighborhoods and in socio-economic community development work, it takes a village to raise a single child into a positive socio-economic condition and state of "Better Family Life”!

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“From the Projects to the Pyramids: In-Search of A Better Family Life,” represents an African-American family’s blueprint for a village approach to human, neighborhood, and community development. Malik’s approach provides its readers with the reasons why African-American families need a Better Family Life to guide their personal and community needs.