Coach Larry · Larry O. Dickerson
Father · Grandfather · Memphis, Tennessee
Four Books.
One Voice.
Unmistakable Purpose.
Words that build children. Movements that rebuild communities. Crimes that must be named. Legacies that must be carried.
"What you say to your child tonight will still be in their brain at forty-five. This book is the 21-day guide to making sure it's worth keeping."
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The Mission Behind Every Word
"Let's Get Every Student Prepared."
Every book Coach Larry writes is an act of preparation — for children, for communities, for the next generation of builders who deserve to know what was built before them, what was stolen, and what is still possible.
Father
Grandfather
Psychology Degree
Memphis, TN
The Complete Collection
Four Original Works
Words Hurt. But They Don't Have To.
The most important classroom your child will ever sit in is your kitchen table. The most powerful teacher they will ever have is you. And the words you speak to them are not just words — they are neurological events. Grounded in the landmark research of Jean Piaget (the architecture of how children's minds are built), T. Berry Brazelton (the Harvard pediatrician who documented when words matter most), and Daniel J. Siegel (the UCLA neuroscientist who showed that negative words activate the same brain pathways as physical pain), this 21-day guide gives every parent, grandparent, and teacher the science and the specific language to transform how a child sees themselves. Meet Calvin — three years old in Memphis, absorbing everything in the room, even what was never meant for him. Meet Jayden — sixteen, tall and built like a promise, who had learned to make himself small. Watch what happens when the right words arrive consistently, specifically, and with intention. The science is clear: 21 days of intentional affirmation begins rewiring a child's self-concept. Not metaphorically. Neurologically. New neural pathways. A new internal story. A child who walks into the world knowing who they are before the world gets a chance to tell them otherwise. This book is for every parent who has ever said something in frustration and wished they could take it back. Every grandparent who is still raising children in their sixties because they love their grandchildren that much. Every teacher who knows the right word at the right moment can change a child's entire trajectory. Every Black family raising children in a world that will, at various points, send them damaging messages about their worth — and who wants to make sure the message from home is louder, clearer, and comes first.
"The words you speak to your child are not just words. They are neurological events."
The New Black Wall Street Memphis
Memphis, 2026. A warehouse in South Memphis with no address on any city map. Seven people around a chalk-drawn map on the floor. A cardiologist. A construction executive. A state representative. The Mayor. And a trust between them that is about to be broken by someone they never suspected. Dr. Eleanor Harrington has spent eighteen months secretly assembling the New Black Wall Street Memphis — eleven property acquisitions, a forty-three-acre sustainable farm, six community markets in food desert zip codes, and a financial architecture designed to make South Memphis economically self-sustaining for the first time in a century. All of it connected. All of it owned. All of it built in secret, because what they are building has been burned before. Larry Dickerson has seen it coming. The title defect with a seventy-year-old fraud behind it. The gray man who meets Marcus Reynolds in diners that appear on no surveillance footage. The ledger in Mrs. Washington's closet — hidden for fifty-seven years — that proves the fires of 1968 were not accidents. This is the thriller Memphis has been waiting for. A story about power, betrayal, resilience, and what it means to build something in a city where things have been burned before. Buy it. Read it in one sitting. Give it to everyone who has ever asked what the New Black Wall Street looks like in 2026. This is the answer.
"The warehouse had no address on any city map. That was the point. What they were building inside it would change everything. If someone didn't burn it down first."
What They Can Do But Black Men Can't
The American justice system says the rules are the same for everyone. The numbers say something completely different. In this explosive, meticulously documented work, Coach Larry examines ten of the most devastating financial crimes in American history — from the 2008 crash that wiped out $23 trillion and 53% of Black family wealth, to Wells Fargo's 3.5 million fraudulent accounts, to the Sackler family's opioid empire that killed 500,000 Americans — and lines each case up against a documented reality: what would have happened if a Black man had done the same thing. The answer is in the U.S. Sentencing Commission's own 2023 report: Black male defendants receive sentences 13.4% longer than white males convicted of identical crimes. Black males are 23.4% less likely to receive probation. These are not opinions. These are government numbers. But this book does not end in anger. It ends in architecture. Six specific, legal, actionable strategies for building Black wealth that cannot be sentenced away, bailed out, or burned down. This book is for every Black professional who needs to understand the landscape they're operating in. Every law student, business student, and community leader who deserves a strategic briefing before they enter these systems. Every American who believes the math should be the same for everyone — and wants to see what it actually is.
"Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. — Judge Sturgess"
The Box That Built a Legacy
A multi-generational family saga rooted in the specific, irreplaceable experience of Black family life in Memphis, Tennessee. It starts with a Christmas morning and a cardboard box that was not supposed to be found until it was time. About the grandmother who kept the receipts of every sacrifice. About the grandfather who built something with his hands because he understood that what you build with your hands cannot be easily taken. About the children who inherited everything without understanding what they were holding — until the moment they needed it most. Every family has something they are trying to keep. This novel is about what happens when you finally understand what you were given — and what you owe to the ones who come after. Buy this book for your family's next gathering. Read it at the kitchen table. Give it to the grandmother who has been keeping the box for thirty years without anyone asking what was in it. Give it to the grandson who thinks he already knows the family story. This novel is proof that the ordinary details of a Black family's life are extraordinary — and that the legacy being built right now, in kitchens and churches and front porches across Memphis, is worth more than any building that was ever burned.
"What you build with your hands cannot be easily taken."
Words That Land
What you say to your child tonight will still be in their brain at forty-five. This book is the 21-day guide to making sure it's worth keeping.
— Words Hurt. But They Don't Have To.
The warehouse had no address on any city map. That was the point. What they were building inside it would change everything. If someone didn't burn it down first.
— The New Black Wall Street Memphis
What you build with your hands cannot be easily taken. About the children who inherited everything without understanding what they were holding — until the moment they needed it most.
— The Box Legacy
They crashed the economy. Destroyed $23 trillion. Killed 500,000 people with a drug they knew was addictive. And walked free. This book has the receipts — and the blueprint for what we build instead.
— What They Can Do But Black Men Can't
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