Journalist and musician James McBride talked about his memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, published by Riverhead Books. This was a stop on the band’s month-long “Riffin and Pontification” tour. McBride talked about his life, the importance of literacy, the creative process, and music. McBride was thirty before he discovered the story of his mother’s early life. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in 'orchestrated chaos.At seventeen, she left Virginia for New York City, where she married a black minister. Fleeing pogroms, her family immigrated to America, and eventually settled in Suffolk, Virginia. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, she was born in Poland on April 1, 1921. McBride recounts the story of his mother’s life. T18:59:50-04:00 Journalist and musician James McBride talked about his memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, published by Riverhead Books.
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