Paula Williams Madison, author of Finding Samuel Lowe, will be reading, discussing, and signing her book at the Main Library (219 Loyola Ave.), Saturday, October 3 @ 11am.
Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem is a moving story of former television executive Paula Madison, a Jamaican-American woman who went in search of her mother’s father, Samuel Lowe, and discovered her own Chinese roots. With a conclusion both surprising and life-affirming, Finding Samuel Lowe tells a compelling story about race,family, fate and destiny.
PAULA MADISON is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a division of Williams Group Holdings LLC, a Chicago-based investment company. They manage such companies as The Africa Channel. Madison is also vice president of the Los Angeles Police Commission. She spent 22 years with NBC, where she was most recently the executive vice president of diversity as well as the vice president of the General Electric Company. Honored for corporate leadership and community outreach, Madison was named one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2005, and included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100.”
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