| Description |
xiii, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm |
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The boogie down -- School days -- Negrita with the good hair -- I am what I am -- In the system but not of it -- The room where it happens -- Motherhood -- The dream deferred -- CNN -- Trayvon -- The View. |
| Summary |
The Emmy Award winning co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice. "What are you?" has followed Sunny Hostin from the beginning of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a successful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first national reporters to cover Trayvon Martin's death-which her producers erroneously labeled "just a local story." Today, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice and give a voice to the marginalized. In her signature style, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility and personal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she worked on as a prosecutor and during her time at CNN, Fox News, ABC and The View. Timely, poignant, and moving, this is the story of a woman living between two worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what's right. |
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Hostin, Sunny.
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Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.
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Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Public prosecutors -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Charisse, author.
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| ISBN |
9780062950826 |
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0062950827 |
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