Unprotected - Lewis Thornton, Rae
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Unprotected: A Memoir is Rae Lewis Thornton's captivating story of what happened to her as a child and how it shaped the trajectory of her life. This story begins on the South Side of Chicago at the age of six with the death of her paternal grandfather-her caregiver and protector - after which, darkness descends over her life like the sky before a storm. Born to drug-addicted, interracial parents in the sixties, Rae's father is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Her mother is somewhere lost to drugs, and her maternal grandmother doesn't want her. She is left to be raised by her…mehr

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Unprotected: A Memoir is Rae Lewis Thornton's captivating story of what happened to her as a child and how it shaped the trajectory of her life. This story begins on the South Side of Chicago at the age of six with the death of her paternal grandfather-her caregiver and protector - after which, darkness descends over her life like the sky before a storm. Born to drug-addicted, interracial parents in the sixties, Rae's father is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Her mother is somewhere lost to drugs, and her maternal grandmother doesn't want her. She is left to be raised by her grandfather's third wife, the woman she calls "Mama." In Mama's care, Rae's life is charged with rejection, violence, and childhood sexual molestation.
Autorenporträt
Rae Lewis-Thornton is an Emmy Award winning AIDS activist and renown social justice advo-cate. Rae received national acclaim for her story of living with HIV/AIDS in the Essence magazine December 1994 issue. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Cul-ture has requested to catalogue her groundbreaking Essence magazine cover. As the face of HIV/AIDS, she has been featured in Glamour, O The Oprah Magazine, Woman's Day, Essence, Jet, Ebony, Emerge, Heart and Soul, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Trib-une. Rae appeared on television and streaming shows including, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Night-line, Dateline, BET, CNN, Vice News, HLN News, Huffington Post Live, and TV One.She is an ordained minister, award-winning blogger, author, and a tea connoisseur with a hand-made knitting and jewelry accessory line, RLT Collection. Rae received an Emmy Award for her television series, Living with AIDS, a first-person chronicle on WBBM, CBS in Chicago.Rae earned a Master of Divinity Degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. She received a distinguished alumnae award from Northeastern Illinois University, and the Scroll of Merit Award from the National Medical Association. She has written two other books, Amazing Grace: Letters Along My Journey and The Politics of Respectability.