Book Review: Never in My Wildest Dreams

Claudia Del Castillo reviews Belva Davis’ “Never in My Wildest Dreams.”

In a time when blacks were beaten and killed in some parts of the United States, one woman did something that seemed impossible. She became the first black female television news reporter in the West Coast.

Racial tensions amongst black and white citizens in California reached peaks in 1964 and 1966, with the riots in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles and Hunter’s Point, a neighborhood in San Francisco. Both riots were caused by arrests and killings of black men. Never in my wildest dreams, mixing autobiography and lessons on recent American history – in which she was also an active participant – chronicles Davis’s struggles to overcome poverty, racism, and sexism and earn the respect of her peers. Read more in TheBrooklynInk.com.