I’m Still Here Review

Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness,” a journey that …

Life with My Idiot Family: A True Story of Survival, Courage and Justice over Childhood Sexual Abuse Review

  This novel is an inspirational story about a woman who had to fight her family, and eventually the government to receive the justice she deserved. She went from being a scared girl, who didn’t even understand that she was being abused by her father, to being a strong woman who wanted to fight for …