Journalist Gil Robertson Pens New Book, Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today

Original essays from Carolyn Kilpatrick, Isaac Hayes, Beverly Johnson, Max Siegel, Cathy Hughes, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Reverend Otis Moss, Ruby Dee, Thurbert Baker and others underscore a new era in American life in Gil Robertson's new anthology, Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today.

Robertson, a veteran lifestyle journalist/editor explores “identity” within the African American community in the new millennium. In Family Affair—the follow up to his bestselling 2006 anthology Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community- Robinson cleaves thought the physical, social, political and historical characteristics that have come to define the African-American community and offers up a multitude of perspectives on how to embrace a more positive future.

Through personal stories and essays by contributors representing various elements of the black community, the book delves into an identity that's been thrown off course due to a number of external and internal factors. Family Affair is divided into five sections representing the key features that influence the African American identity: Family, Culture, Relationships, Community and Self.

Each section features religious leaders, institutional leaders, elected officials, and celebrities from the worlds of music, film and broadcasting – as well as plenty of ordinary people with extraordinary stories. Family Affair offers revelations and insights on topics that the majority of African American only talk about in secret.

For more info: www.familyaffairbook.com.