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Rasheed Newson is an author, a television drama writer, an executive producer, and a showrunner. "My Government Means to Kill Me" is his debut novel. Rasheed – along with his television writing partner, T.J. Brady – is an Executive Producer of the drama series Bel-Air (Peacock).
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Aug 20, 2022 · In his debut, “My Government Means to Kill Me,” Rasheed Newson shines a vivid light onto underappreciated aspects of our history through the life of a gay Black teenager. Share full article....
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Aug 23, 2022 · By Ruth Madievsky. August 23, 2022. Macmillan; Christopher Marrs. Check out more from Read Me, our queer literature column, here. My Government Means to Kill Me isn’t just a page-turning Bildungsroman about a queer Black teenager. It’s also a correction to the historical narrative around AIDS.
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Aug 23, 2022 · The novelist and TV writer Rasheed Newson is 43, which makes him too young to have participated in the heyday of AIDS activism and the civil rights movement.
Aug 23, 2022 · Rasheed Newson. 4.25. 4,634 ratings863 reviews. A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air.
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Aug 23, 2022 · An Amazon Best Book of August 2022: Laugh out loud moments give way to galvanizing moments in this unputdownable debut by Rasheed Newson. Set in the 1980s, My Government Means to Kill Me follows the trajectory of a young Black man who ditches his wealthy Midwest family to go be free and uninhibited in New York.
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