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Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope From Black America

Author: Tavis Smiley

List Price: $28.95
Price: $28.95

  • Hardcover: 510 pages
  • Publisher: Thorndike Press; Largeprint edition (December 1, 2003)
  • ISBN: 0786257946



 
"This book is a celebration of faith that will inspire any reader."
-- Booklist
 

An Essence Bestseller

Written by African Americans, these stories share lessons learned about family, heritage, and the abiding and profound inner strength and spirituality that sustain the African-American community.

 
From Publishers Weekly
Author (How to Make Black America Better), NPR talk-show host and PrimeTime correspondent Smiley assembled this collection of essays to celebrate the inner strength of black Americans. There are testimonials from the famous, including Cornel West, Danny Glover and eight stories from Smiley himself, but most of the collection comprises anecdotes from regular folks. Kaye Barrow Ziglar, an ordained deacon, tells of getting through Christmas a few months after losing her young daughter, while journalist Sandra R. Bell recounts how she was "dragged through the mud" over a building project, yet prevailed, thanks to her persistence and hope. Smiley has organized these vignettes thematically around topics such as faith, grief and healing; education; hope and overcoming; and "Black love." It's this last subject that Smiley is most emphatic about. "I'm not just talking about their ability to love their own, but also the ability to love others," he writes. Besides the love of God, "Black love is the most powerful force in the universe," Smiley says, and this collection showcases that power.
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