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Name
  
Herb Boyd

Role
  
Journalist


Education
  
Wayne State University

Awards
  
American Book Awards

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Nominations
  
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography / Auto-biography

Books
  
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biograph, Brotherman, Black Panthers for Begin, Autobiography of a People, Civil Rights: Yesterda

Edited works
  
Autobiography of a People, The Harlem Reader, Race and Resistance: African A

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Herb Boyd (born November 1, 1938) is an American journalist, educator, author, and activist. His articles appear regularly in the New York Amsterdam News. He teaches black studies at the City College of New York and the College of New Rochelle.

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Biography

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Boyd was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He met Malcolm X in 1958 and credits him as an inspiration: "[Malcolm] set me on the path to become the writer-activist I am, to try to live up to the very ennobling things that he represented."

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Boyd attended Wayne State University. During the late 1960s, he helped establish the first black studies classes there and went on to teach at the university for 12 years. He also co-developed and instructed the initial curriculum in jazz studies at the Oberlin Conservatory.

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In addition to the Amsterdam News, Boyd's work has been published in The Black Scholar, The City Sun, Down Beat, Emerge, and Essence. He has been recognized with awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the New York Association of Black Journalists. In 2014, the National Association of Black Journalists inducted Boyd into its Hall of Fame.

Brotherman, which Boyd co-edited with Robert L. Allen, was given the 1995 American Book Award. His biography Baldwin's Harlem was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2009.

Boyd was managing editor of The Black World Today, a now-defunct online news service.

Selected works

  • African History for Beginners, For Beginners, 2007. ISBN 978-1934389188
  • Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African-American History Told by Those Who Lived It (editor), Anchor Books, 2000. ISBN 978-0385492799
  • Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, Atria, 2008. ISBN 978-0743293075
  • Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination, Amistad, 2017 ISBN 978-0062346629
  • Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (co-editor with Robert L. Allen), One World/Ballantine, 1995. ISBN 978-0345376701
  • By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented (co-editor with Ron Daniels, Maulana Karenga, and Haki R. Madhubuti), Third World Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0883783368
  • We Shall Overcome: The History of the Civil Rights Movement as It Happened, Sourcebooks, 2004. ISBN 978-1402202131

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    Herb Boyd Wikipedia
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