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Mark Whitaker

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Mark Whitaker is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, My Long Trip Home. The former managing editor of CNN Worldwide, he was previously the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and a reporter and editor at Newsweek, where he rose to become the first African-American leader of a national newsweekly.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,113 ratings · 274 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance 4.25 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosby: His Life and Times 3.58 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir 3.67 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saying It Loud: 1966―The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement 4.33 avg rating — 76 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nightwatchman (The Wisden Cricket Quarterly #5) by Matt Thacker (Editor), Christian Ryan, Justin Parkinson 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Centennial: Short Story's Of Ithiria by April Wahlin (Goodreads Author), Mark Whitaker (Illustrator), Talese Shertzer (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Long Trip Home by Whitaker, Mark. (Simon & Schuster,2011) [Hardcover] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newsweek. November 18, 2002. Top Gun. How Bush Beat the Odd. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Mark Whitaker Learning Politics From Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journa (Anthropology, Cu [Paperback] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newsweek. March 10, 2003. Bush & God. Why His "God Talk" Worries Friends & Foes. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Poll for February's group read, AA Nonfiction. Which selection would you like to read? This poll will on remain open until January 7. This should give us enough time to purchase/borrow the book in order to start reading on February 1. Please remember to only vote if you plan on participating.

- South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain

18 votes, 24.3%

- Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

12 votes, 16.2%

- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain

10 votes, 13.5%

- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

9 votes, 12.2%

- A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman

8 votes, 10.8%

Caste by Isabella Wilkerson (write-in)

7 votes, 9.5%

- May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry

5 votes, 6.8%

- Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

74 total votes

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