41 Remarkable Memoirs by Black Celebrities

In his New York Times bestselling memoir Born a Crime, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah opens up about his childhood in South Africa. In a time when interracial relationships were punishable by time in prison, Trevor's very existence put his family at risk; it wasn't until the apartheid was abolished in 1991 that Trevor was able to truly live uninhibited. In a hilarious, dramatic, and memorable way, Trevor tells of his meaningful relationship with his mother, general ups and downs of youth and adolescence, and how he managed to discover who he was in a time and place when danger, poverty, violence, and crime surrounded him.