More Than I Imagined av John Blake

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<b>An award-winning journalist tells the story of his quest to reconcile with his white mother and the family he’d never met—and how faith brought them all together.</b><br><br><b>“A compelling and courageous journey that bears witness to the realities of systemic racism, the complexity of identity within that system, and the possibilities of reconciliation.”—Robin DiAngelo, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>White Fragility</i></b><br><br>John Blake grew up in a notorious Black neighborhood in inner-city Baltimore that became the setting for the HBO series <i>The Wire</i>. There he became a self-described “closeted biracial person,” hostile toward white people while hiding the truth of his mother’s race. The son of a Black man and a white woman who met when interracial marriage was still illegal, Blake knew this much about his mother: She vanished from his life not long after his birth, and her family rejected him because of