As the son of an Apostolic Pentecostal preacher and devout Christian songstress, Derric an African American child growing up in Detroit, paid little attention to the spiritual practices conducted in his church and community. As a teenager, searching for ways to escape the crack cocaine epidemic that devastated Black and Latino communities across the county in the mid-1980s. He was led to embark upon a long and arduous spiritual quest that would t more...
