EARNED: BORN FOR THE BADGE

Before the badge, there was a boy — corrected for who he was, violated before he had words for it, and told in a hundred different ways that he needed to change. EARNED: Born for the Badge is the unflinching memoir of Malachi Alexander-Randolph, a Black, gay deputy who survived childhood sexual abuse, identity crisis, the loss of his mother, and six denied promotions to become the officer he needed as a child. Raw, honest, and redemptive — this is a story about what it costs to belong to yo...