New York Times Literary Treat of the Week...

O’Brien, Soledad, and Arce, Rose Marie. The Next Big Story: My Journey Through The Land Of Possibilities. A Celebra Brook.

There has never been a dull moment for Soledad O’Brien since the St. James, Long Island native broke onto the national news scene. At a young MSNBC “The Zone” which O’Brien anchored was the first daily program to document in depth the emerging Internet revolution. NBC employment gave O’Brien opportunity to cover school shootings in Colorado and Oregon plus the airplane death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. Becoming co-anchor of “American Morning” at CNN, Soledad O’Brien’s stories included Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti earthquake. Currently heading the network’s “In America” documentary unit, O’Brien’s point of view on race and immigration is highly personal (her father being white, her mother both black and Cuban). O’Brien relates her anger at the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s statement that she didn’t “count” when discussing CNN’s lack of African-American anchors (Jackson later apologized upon learning about the reporter’s lineage).