John Blake is an award-winning CNN journalist. He has been honored by the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Academy of Religion, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Religion Communicators Council. A recipient of the GLAAD Media Award, he has spoken at high schools, colleges, and symposiums, and in documentaries on race, religion, and politics. Blake is a native of Baltimore, Maryland.
“This memoir surprised me over and over again. John Blake’s life
reads like a thriller but, like his reporting at CNN, is packed
with pockets of compassion and wisdom.”—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
“More Than I Imagined is a powerful chronicle of John Blake’s
journey that lays out a clear path toward racial healing—not just
for his own family but the entire United States.”—The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
“John Blake incisively covers news of today’s racial divide, but
it’s his own story that truly deserves to be broadcast.”—Heather
McGhee, New York Times bestselling author of The Sum of Us
“I tell John Blake things I don’t tell any other journalist.
Sensitive to the moment, amid the recent surge of attention given
to faith and race, Blake provides the kind of steady and studied
analysis that we need to understand these critical topics.”—Jemar
Tisby, New York Times bestselling author of The Color of
Compromise
“John Blake takes us on a heartbreaking, powerful journey of
personal, familial, and possibly national redemption. Truth-telling
and working to confront those uncomfortable truths are at the core
of this engaging and wrenching memoir.”—Carol Anderson, Ph.D., New
York Times bestselling author of White Rage
“More Than I Imagined impacted me far more than I could have
possibly imagined. John Blake is spot-on when he writes, ‘facts
don’t change people; relationships do.’ I needed this book; our
nation needs this book.”—Andy Stanley, pastor, founder of North
Point Ministries and author of Not in It to Win It
“More Than I Imagined testifies to the deepest truth that America
cannot change unless Americans change. John Blake’s tender,
powerful reckoning with his family’s history, secrets, myths, and
divisions shows how we as a country can find a pathway to
wholeness.”—Eric Liu, author of Become America
“I don’t recall a memoir so substantively shaped by the
self-awareness of one’s relationships.”—Scot McKnight, professor at
Northern Seminary and bestselling author of Jesus Creed
“Blake’s message of empathetic compassion and coming together as a
community is a balm for a divided country that leans on
sensationalism, hate, and scare tactics.”—Library Journal, starred
review
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