When Herb Kent was a straight-A college student in the 1940s, his white professor told him, ?You have the best voice in class, but you?ll never make it in radio because you?re a Negro.? This did not deter the poor kid from the Chicago housing projects who had decided on a radio career at age five. It was just one more obstacle to face head on and overcome.
Author: Herb Kent, David Smallwood · Original publisher: Lawrence Hill Books (an imprint of Chicago Review Press), 2009 (ISBN 978-1-55652-774-6)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/coolgentninelive00kent (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche A: coolgentninelive00kent; no hosting rights).
