Jamal Greene grew up on the streets of Harlem and while growing up Jamal attended school and was an above average student who love the arts while growing up in Harlem Jamal got with a dangerous group of boys wanting to be men and started Hustling on the streets while out there Jamal recieved some small amount of fame on the streets with his cousin Smokey and then Jamal got arrested and went away to prison after a witness testified against him during trial Jamal decided to change his life around from a nagative to a positive and he study Law while away and recieved his Cert. In Understanding Mental Illness and went to work for Western United Tlc while working there Jamal assisted prisoners coming home to transition back into society and to find housing and to deal with their substance abuse issues like he did while working there he started the N.A. group and won several awards for his services. Jamal loved the arts and he began to write again and he wrote his first book Black Sunday and on to write Black Sunday the Awakening and two more powerful novel dealing with the life he knows to give a message to his readers who might be going through what he had before changing Jamal practice the Islamic Faith today and he is married to a wonderful women Denise Thomas Greene who encourage him to write along with the assistance of his son K'wan Foye notice writer himself author of Gangster, Hoodlum and Welfare Wives !.