Earl Ofari Hutchinson
| Earl Ofari Hutchinson | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 8, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, radio personality |
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a journalist, author, and media critic.[1]
Hutchinson is also the author of nine books about the African American experience. He serves as the President of the National Alliance for Positive Action, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Blacknews.com and Blackamerica.web.com. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He has written for The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the Chicago Tribune and Jewish Currents.[2]
He regularly contributed to the weekly Guardian in the decade before it folded (1992).
His 1996 Betrayed: The Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives contributed to publicizing the 1964 murders of two African American teenagers by Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale.[3] Seale was eventually tried and convicted, and in August 2007 he was sentenced to three consecutive life terms.[4] Hutchinson has written extensively on race and politics in The Los Angeles Times,[5] Newsday, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore Sun.
His featured interviews and comments on race and politics have appeared in Time,[6] Salon,[7] Newsweek, The New York Times, and ABC's World News Tonight. He is a frequent guest analyst on: Fox News John Gibson Show, O'Reilly Show, Hannity & Colmes, Glenn Beck Show, PBS Lehrer Report, NPR's Talk of the Nation, and Various CNN News Shows.
His father, Earl Hutchinson Sr., is the lead author of A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America.
Hutchinson has taken part in the controversy about Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, accusing the former pontiff of being complicit in the crimes of the Nazis.[8][9]
[edit] Books by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- The Mugging of Black America (1991) ISBN 978-0913543214
- Black Fatherhood: The Guide to Male Parenting (1994) ISBN 978-1881032090
- Black Fatherhood II: Black Women Talk About Their Men (1994) ISBN 978-1881032106
- Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990 (1994)ISBN 978-0870133619
- Beyond O.J.: Race, Sex and Class Lessons For America (1996) ISBN 978-1881032120
- Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives (1996) ISBN 978-0813324661
- The Assassination of the Black Male Image (1997) ISBN 0-684-83657-2
- The Crisis in Black and Black (1998) ISBN 978-1881032151
- A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America (2000) ISBN 978-1881032175
- The Disappearance of Black Leadership (2000)ISBN 978-1881032168
- The Emerging Black GOP Majority (2006) ISBN 1881032191
- The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics (2007) ISBN 978-1-881032-22-9
- The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (2008)ISBN 978-1881032250
- How the GOP Can Keep the White House, How the Democrats Can Take it Back (2008)ISBN 978-1881032359
- How Obama Won (2009) ISBN 978-1439219294
[edit] References
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ Hutchinson, Earl Ofari (1996). The assassination of the Black male image. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684831007.
- ^ The Huffington Post
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ The Los Angeles Times
- ^ Time
- ^ Salon
- ^ Alternet.org
- ^ Opednews.com
[edit] External links
- African American social scientists
- African American non-fiction writers
- American political writers
- African American writers
- American alternative journalists
- American social commentators
- Documentary film producers
- People from Illinois
- People from Chicago, Illinois
- African American journalists
- American sociologists
- 1945 births
- Living people
