Black and White-Wrong and Right: A True Love Story from South Central

True love tested by racial cultural and systemic attack. A story that makes you fall in love with love. Save your tears-Its a better world since Candy and Gabe. This is a true story of a 17-year-old tough-minded female sprinter and her 27-year-old soft-hearted male coach who though opposite in terms of class race and age run smack into each others hearts. Smarter cleverer and stronger than their early 80s peers in depressed South Central LA she runs on and he coaches their Jefferson High track team of course to glory. Breaking custom and law they face repudiation misunderstanding and controversy. They confront: the courts the school board a violent racist group peers and family. How they survive and build a happy lifelong nationally famous family of activists is a gripping story and a miracle of love. QUOTES ABOUT CANDY AND GABE: This couples vision amazingly defeated everything our roughest neighborhoods threw at them. Its not only Candys talent but their inner spark that saved them. -Ferial Masry LA urban Cleveland High history teacher and ABC News Person of the Week Candy you have balls. -Rita Moreno in conversation with Candy 1991 about her new Interrace magazine Beyond incredible work with relationship rights Candy still holds five Track and Field records at Union College almost 40 years after setting them and is still streaming in-person singer-song-writer jazz songs. -Christopher Sheridan Executive TV Producer of Family Guy and writer for Living Single Mills and Grosz want their children to define for themselves who they want to be. -Time Magazine Fall 1993 This magazine is saying its all right to be different. Its a celebration of the human race of racial diversity. -Interrace magazine Candy and Gabes own publication 1989 This book is more than a good read. In the midst of racism and polarization the power of love holds out surviving cruelty racism and ethnocentrism. Its Dr. Kings dream-the peace of Black and White together. -Ola Washington Ventura College African American Studies Instructor The Groszs began publishing Interrace magazine with a $500 investment in 1989. Circulation has risen to 25000. -Atlanta Constitution November 10 1993