If I Make You A Star: A Trailblazing Black TV journalist's Me Too Story
Wed, Mar 29
|Sankofa Video, Books, & Café
Join us for a chat with former journalist, Theresa Brown on her new book If I Make You A Star: A Trailblazing Black TV journalist's Me Too Story.
Time & Location
Mar 29, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
About The Event
About the book:
How does an ordinary-colored-girl get her own talk show in 1973 covering Southern New England? Not by being a good girl. She wasn't always bad, she'd tell you. It wasn't until she met 'him.' The him was one of TV's most powerful behind the scenes star makers. "If I Make You A Star" A trailblazing black TV journalist's Me Too story, by Theresa Brown is about love and hate, power and compromise, colorism, betrayal, mental illness and Moral Injury. It's an insider's story of grooming, success and the consequences of complicity, taking place in the late 60s when Jessica Savitch, Andrea Mitchell, Charlie Rose, Maria Shriver - were just beginning their careers. Brown knew them all; but you don't know her because the hand she was dealt, she could not play. In a story that reads like a life-threatening rollercoaster ride - Brown takes us from the…
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