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M. K. Asante (born November 3, 1982) is an American author, filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He is the author of the 2013 best-selling memoir Buck: A Memoir and the 2024 memoir Nephew: A Memoir in Four-Part Harmony.
Feb 24, 2024 · St. Martin's Press | Creative Non Fiction | MK Asante It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop The classic hip hop manifesto by MK Asante, now available in stores and on all major eReader devices.
MK Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and distinguished professor who the Los Angeles Times calls “One of America’s best storytellers.”
M.K. Asante is an American author, filmmaker, recording artist, professor. He is known for his memoir Buck. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and raised in Philadelphia, he is the son of scholar Molefi Kete Asante and choreographer Kariamu Welsh.
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Aug 20, 2013 · M.K. Asante (Malo) has written an incredible memoir of his adolescence in Philadelphia. With his older stepbrother in prison, his mother struggling with a mental illness and a father always away, Malo is forced to navigate his own path through a life of gangs, violence and drugs.
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Jun 17, 2015 · Best selling author MK Asante talks writing his memoir 'Buck', how he engages his students and his honest thoughts on Barack Obama.
Waiting in the emergency room at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia where his eighteen-year-old nephew, Nasir, lay unconscious after being shot nine times, M. K. Asante began pouring his heart and soul into a series of letters to a beautiful, dying Black boy so full of life.
