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A provocative look at what it means to be Black today. It includes excerpts from over 100 interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, Skip Gates, Melissa Harris-Perry, Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Mooney, NY Gov David Paterson, Harold Ford, Jr., Soledad O'Brien, Kamala Harris, Chuck D, Questlove and others. A memoir of the racist and racial incidents that have shaped Toure's life. William Pope.L, and Rashid Johnson.
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"Author and narrator Toure...delivers a powerful reading that is at once emotional yet unbiased. His delivery is smooth and focused...manages to create a magnum opus that will resonate for decades to come. Toure is a seasoned presenter, and his television "
AudioFile Magazine
"A 2011 notable book. ...one of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, black and middle-class in contemporary America. Toure inventively draws on a range of evidence...for a performance carried through with unsparing honesty, in a distinctive voice that is often humorous...always intensely engaging."
New York Times
"A compelling book in the age of Obama..."
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