Young, Gifted, and Black
Rashod Ollison's memoir "Soul Serenade" is a special book, in part because it doesn't claim to be....
Emily J. Lordi is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature and a forthcoming 33 1/3 book on Donny Hathaway Live.