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M.K. ASANTE - On Finding Your Purpose and Pursuing it Relentlessly (The BUCK Interview)

3,968 views · Published 14 November 2013 · 9:14 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Reelblack One · 2013 · People & Blogs

RBTV sat down with author and professor MK ASANTE at the Crefield School to discuss his new book, BUCK: A MEMOIR. Camera + Edit: Mike D.

A rebellious boy's journey through the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family—this is the riveting story of a generation told through one dazzlingly poetic new voice.

MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: a mother who led the new nation's dance company and a father who would soon become a revered pioneer in black studies. But things fell apart, and a decade later MK was in America, a teenager lost in a fog of drugs, sex, and violence on the streets of North Philadelphia. Now he was alone—his mother in a mental hospital, his father gone, his older brother locked up in a prison on the other side of the country—and forced to find his own way to survive physically, mentally, and spiritually, by any means necessary.

Buck is a powerful memoir of how a precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers—outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life with a single blank sheet of paper. It's a one-of-a-kind story about finding your purpose in life, and an inspiring tribute to the power of education, art, and love to heal and redeem us.

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M.K. ASANTE - On Finding Your Purpose and Pursuing it Relentlessly (The BUCK Interview)

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