More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew

More Than I Imagined: What a Black Man Discovered About the White Mother He Never Knew

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.

John Blake grew up in a notorious Blac…

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