9: A memoir by a person of color

[Jessica]

#LitsyRC9

A memoir (or autobiography) by a person of color

[Kris]

I love Aisha Tyler, so I'm going to read her book.

[Theresa]

I think I'll read the March trilogy for this prompt. I just bought it & am excited to dive in.

[Shelly]

Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is the book I plan to read. I've been excited to read it since I read the essay about her stroke on Buzzfeed and its release date is February '17.

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I'm going to go with The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

[Jennifer]

Here are two Funny in Farsi and Laughing without an Accent both by Dumas.
I've read Funny in Farsi and plan to read the other in 2017.

[Gianna]

Shonda Rhymes Year of Yes!
Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching

[Mariposa75me.com]

I think I will read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. He's smart and adorable so it should be fun.

[Jessica]

Mariposa75me.com wrote: "I think I will read Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. He's smart and adorable so it should be fun."

I think I might read this one as well. It's supposed to be very good.

[Hannah]

I'm thinking Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

[Kristopher]

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah would be a great choice. Also, Ralph David Abernathy's And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. I am going with Congressman John Lewis' March (probably all 3).

[Natasha]

Does autobiographical fiction count? I don't totally know how fuzzy that line is, but The Residue Years has been on my list for a while.

[Blaire]

I just read Iran awakening. Would recommend it for this category.

[Cynthia]

I did Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? on audiobook for this category.

[Daria]

Was going to do Christopher Darden's In Contempt, but I just checked out Between the World & Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates so I'm going with that.

[Jessica]

So, for this one I decided to finally read Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock, which I finished tonight. It's a really good memoir, and timely.

[Jen]

I just finished Lion by Saroo Brierley, and I would recommend it so much, especially if you are planning on watching the movie. It's an amazing story.

[Laura]

I'm almost done listening to Born a Crime in audio version. It's very good - even with the salty language

[Amy]

Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou is a short read. I second Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More also.

[Martha]

My Life, My Love, My Legacy Still thinking about it , but I really liked it.

[Melissa]

Finished March: Book One 1-3 and now I'm listening to My Life, My Love, My Legacy which should both work.

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I read The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright (by Yvette Johnson.) The author seeks to find out more about her grandfather, a waiter who in three minutes in a NBC documentary in 1966, delivered a monologue that belied the claims of the Whites that they treated the Blacks well. The book exposes the deep-seated racism and hypocrisy of Greenwood, MS - the home of Robert Johnson and B.B. King; but also the most contentious of hotbeds during the Civil Rights Movement. Yvette Johnson also seeks to define her own sense of Blackness, and resolve family issues with each of her parents. There is a companion documentary that was screened at the Tribecca Film Festival, a couple of years go, 'Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story.'

[Shawn]

I have recently started, and am very much enjoying, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening, which fits for this reading task.