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Yamma Brown's memoir Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me was excerpted in her hometown Atlanta magazine.
For Domestic Violence Awareness Week, Yamma Brown, author of Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me, wrote an article about her personal experience with the cycle of violence: "Why I Stayed in a Violent Marriage, Then Left and Became Part of the Solution."
It took some real soul-searching, but I finally decided that my story—my true story, not the fairytale I had initially envisioned—might help someone else who was living the same hell that I once had. In the end, what resulted is, I think, a raw but truthful story of daughter who loved her very flawed father more than anything in the world, but who finally had the courage to break a long cycle of abuse that had been passed down by him.
Read the entire article on Essence.com.
An excerpt from Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me, detailing author Yamma Brown's personal experiences with domestic violence, was featured on The Daily Beast.
Slate featured an excerpt from Yamma Brown's memoir Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me, detailing her experiences with the cycle of domestic violence: "My Father Was James Brown. I Watched Him Beat My Mother. And Then I Found Myself With Someone Like Dad."
An excerpt from Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me, detailing author Yamma Brown's experiences with the cycle of domestic violence, was featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog.
Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me was featured in the September 2014 issue of Ebony magazine.
Dr. Yamma Brown, author of the memoir Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me, was interviewed for a Times-Picayune story about "Get On Up," the new James Brown biopic.
Dr. Yamma Brown, author of the memoir Cold Sweat: My Father James Brown and Me (Sept), was interviewed in the June/July 2014 issue of Uptown magazine.