From the man who catapulted the
Covenant with Black
America to number one on the
New York Times
bestseller list comes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain and atonment.
Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian, where money was scarce and the sight of other black faces even scarcer. Always an outsider because of his race, economic background, and Pentecostal religious beliefs, he was sustained by his family’s love. But one day his world was shattered when his father brutally beat him, sending him to the hospital and then into foster care for a period of time. In
What I Know for Sure
, Smiley recounts how he overcame his painful history and became one of America’s most popular media figures.