MK Asante, historically black Morgan State’s youngest tenured professor at the age of 26 at the time, recently sat down with BET.com to talk about his experiences as an author and filmmaker, his books, films and music career.

“Buck is my story, it’s my journey,” MK Asante said. “Buck is a book about education, it’s about miseducation, it’s about reeducation, it’s about self-education, it’s about street-education[…] so at its fundamental core Buck is a book about education.”

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About MK Asante:

MK Asante is a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, rapper, and professor who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force.”

Asante is the author of the acclaimed memoir Buck, described by Maya Angelou as “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.”Buck made the Washington Post bestseller list in 2014 and 2015, is a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, an NAACP Image Award and Alex Award finalist, and winner of the In the Margins Book Award. His other books are It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Beautiful. And Ugly Too, and Like Water Running Off My Back.

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