Jamal Joseph
Jamal Joseph’s memoir, Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion & Reinvention (Algonquin, $23.95) chronicles his odyssey from the street of 60s Harlem as a Black Panther and a stint on Rikers Island at sixteen years old, to a professorship at Columbia—the same school he once exhorted student to burn to the ground. “An inspiring, unapologetic account of transformation.”—Booklist. Joseph is professor and Chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Division and the author of the interactive biography of Tupac Shakur, Tupac Shakur Legacy. He was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award in the Best Song category.
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