Happy New Year! If you’re a writer or book lover looking for an event that could stimulate your creativity and engage your curiosity, you might want to check out the upcoming Telling the Stories of Black Lives through Biography Conference. Set for March 21-22, 2025 in Montgomery Alabama, this first-of-its-kind national conference is sponsored by…
Here’s hoping that you are staying as safe and as cool as possible during this sizzling summer! If you’re looking for some summer reading possibilities, you might want to check out the link below. It will take you to an article that I wrote about a radio series I had the pleasure of working on…
I wish you all the best in this new year! Please check out a powerful article from the AARP Bulletin, about just three of the Americans who in their youth fought the good fight against segregation and discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Left to right: Fred Gray, Charles Person…
About 25 years ago, in March 1998 to be exact, NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday aired a documentary I produced that explored how affirmative action policies in higher education admissions and hiring practices affected students, faculty and staff at a specific university from the 1960s through the 1990s. The piece, Affirmative Action and Higher Education: An…
Podcaster Obehi Ewanfoh, an African producer based in Verona, Italy, recently invited me to appear on his podcast series. Here’s the result – and enjoy the conversation.