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AIDS in the African American Community
Agate
December 2006
On Sale: December 1, 2006
300 pages
ISBN: 1932841245
EAN: 9781932841244
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Non-Fiction
At long last, the time has come: the time for African
American people to face the scourge that has affected it
disproportionately for years, and to break through the
cultural inhibitions that have prevented them from dealing
with it head on. This landmark collection of personal
essays, stories, brief memoirs, and polemics from a broad
swath of black Americans-whether prominent figures from the
worlds of politics, entertainment, or sports, or just
ordinary folks with extraordinary -stories whose lives have
been touched by HIV/AIDS-will galvanize public attention
around this issue.
Author and journalist Gil Robertson first conceived this
"gripping and heartfelt patchwork," as he calls it, when his
older brother was diagnosed with HIV. As he writes in his
introduction, "As I've watched my family move through the
various stages of his illness and hear similar stories from
others, I began to realize that my family was not alone.
There are countless other families waging the same fight
with this disease, and I wanted to connect with them so we
would feel even more so empowered to wage battle."
Robertson has enlisted a remarkable group of contributors to
give voice to their impassioned thoughts and feelings. A
partial list includes: from politics, Rep. Jesse Jackson
Jr., former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and Al
Sharpton; from music, Patti LaBelle; from film and TV,
Mo'Nique, Jasmine Guy, Hill Harper, and Sheryl Lee Ralph;
and from letters, Randall Robinson and Omar Tyree-among
many, many others.
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