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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: 4.05 · 1,586 ratings · 364 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance 4.29 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 2018 — 7 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
	Cosby: His Life and Times 3.58 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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 — 276 ratings — published 2011 — 13 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 4.31 avg rating — 197 ratings — 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
	The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America 4.50 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Running for Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's Greatest Ever Distance Runners 3.92 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 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 3.71 avg rating — 7 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) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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
	Ares IX: Darkness by Brendan Hodgdon (Goodreads Author), Charles Crapo, Balazs Valyogos (Artist) 3.50 avg rating — 2 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 - October 13, 2008: Sarah Palin Cover! by Jonathan Alter (Goodreads Author), Anna Quindlen, Vernon Jordan did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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