Trymaine Lee, author of A Thousand Ways to Die, is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and MSNBC contributor. He is the host of the "Into America" podcast, where he explores the intersections of race, power and politics. For more than two decades, Trymaine has been at the forefront of America’s defining stories—covering natural disasters, racial justice uprisings, and the ongoing struggle for true democracy and equality. He is widely credited as being the first national journalist to report on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a story that helped ignite a nationwide movement. As a national correspondent at MSNBC, he led coverage of the killing of Michael Brown Jr. and the Ferguson uprising that followed, further cementing his role as a leading voice on race and justice in America.
Reading Recommendations by Trymaine Lee
Here are Trymaine's top reads for CPL patrons to check out:
"King of the Cats" by Wil Haygood chronicles the life of civil rights leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who Trymaine calls “a fascinating character with a fascinating life.”
In "Between the World and Me" author Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks “eloquently, with a lot of heart and passion.”
"Black Boy (American Hunger)" by Richard Wright is a “foundational” text that explores “what it means to search for more” and reach “for the warmth of other suns.”
"The Sword and the Shield" by Peniel E. Joseph explores how two civil rights titans, Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr., fight in their own ways for “equality or freedom and liberation in America."
Trymaine’s favorite fiction writer, Walter Mosley, brings post-World War II Los Angeles to life with "Devil in A Blue Dress" and his iconic detective character, Easy Rawlins.
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