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From an award-winning actor and a #1 bestselling author, a unique combination of moving memoir and practical tools that offers guidance for Black men seeking to reclaim their mental well-being–and, ultimately, to live wholeheartedly. In America, we teach that strength means holding back tears...

DAYGLOW MAN – A LIFE TOLD HONESTLY This is not a cosy memoir. Dayglow Man is the story of growing up in a world where chaos was normal and safety was never guaranteed. A working-class childhood in 1970s London Violence, neglect, and instability Boarding schools, care homes, and tough streets Learning to survive before learning to live Phillip Spires writes without polish and without pretence. The fights, the fear, the confusion – it’s all here. Nothing is softened, nothing is dressed up, and nothing is written for sympathy. But this isn’t just a book about hardship.

How do you learn to be a Black man in America? For young Black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of Black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years.