Book Review Taraji on being a single mother and Hollywood stardomAround The Way Girl by Taraji P. Henson. With that show syndicated across most major networks in the world and Netflix, Taraji Penda Henson is really a household name. Taraji’s book Around The Way Girl, starts from the beginning, after she was old enough to be self-aware. Taraji describes the rocky relationship that characterised her growing up with her father Boris Lawrence Henson, a Vietnam vet and mother Bernice Gordon in north east DC. Of him she writes, “Daddy wasn’t average.”Fatherhood is a theme Taraji explores in the book.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 28, 2019 19:02 UTC