Taraji P. Henson can now add author to her empire of achievements because her new memoir is out October 11, and it now has a fabulous double cover and title to go with it. She’s calling it Around the Way Girl, a title that just screams Cookie. It’s a callback to the famous LL Cool J song, which itself praised that girl around town who was just too smooth for words, try as LL did to describe her. (“She can walk with a switch and talk with street slang / I love it when a woman ain’t scared to do her thing.â€) As Lucious Lyon knows all too well, she’s a woman with class who can get a little hood if provoked. She’s, in a name, Cookie. But before Cookie, she was 1,000 percent Taraji, whose memoir will detail her life growing up in D.C., being a single mom, and navigating Hollywood as a black woman. In other words, it’s required reading. For now, feast your lion’s den, er, book club on her amazing throwback cover:
