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Steve Pemberton was a forgotten child, ... Pemberton’s white mother and black father dated, though it was unclear how long their relationship lasted. He was in foster care from the time he was 3.
11 de feb. de 2012 · Abusive childhood transcends to triumph. LAUREN DALEY. 0:03. 0:50. When he talks about his traumatic childhood growing up in New Bedford, Steve Pemberton will tell you he doesn't want to emphasize ...
15 de nov. de 2020 · Soon after, at age 3, Pemberton was taken away from his mother, who was an alcoholic, and placed with foster parents, who abused him for the next 13 years. Pemberton defied that early prediction. The native of New Bedford, Massachusetts went on to graduate from college, showed corporations how to diversify their work forces, and eventually authored that book.
His mother, Marion Murphy Klakowicz, was an American of Polish descent. She struggled with alcoholism and died at the age of forty. His father, Kenny Pemberton, was an African-American boxing champion who was murdered at the age of twenty-six.
10 de ene. de 2012 · ISBN-13: 9781595552631. Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Pemberton is now trapped with a cruel foster family and finds his only refuge in books. Armed with just a single clue, Steve embarks on an extraordinary quest for his identity, only to find that nothing is as it appears.
9 de ene. de 2012 · “Pemberton’s beautifully told story is a rags to riches journey—beginning in a place and with a jarring set of experiences that could have destroyed his life. But Steve’s refusal to give in to those forces, and his resolve to create a better life, shows a courage and resilience that is an example for many of us to follow.”—Stedman Graham, author, educatorHome is the place where our ...
Desperate for a sense of family and belonging, Steve searches for his biological parents, but no one in the system can help him. No one can tell him why, with obvious African-American features, he has the last name of Klakowicz.
