Ron Wynn
Content by Ron Wynn
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Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker Chris Gardner became an international symbol of the will to survive in 2006.
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<b>A filmmaker's dramatic rise and fall</b> Oscar Micheaux was an innovator and a revolutionary force as a filmmaker, entrepreneur and novelist, unquestionably black America's first mu
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While the history of America’s civil rights movement contains many glittering tales of triumph, there were also several episodes filled with tragedy and sacrifice.
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Gordon Parks Jr.'s accomplishments as a photographer and writer are remarkable, but he has also been a composer, painter, director and producer.
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Given the recent run of memoirs whose astonishing exploits and lurid tales ended up being false, it's not surprising journalist David Carr takes extraordinary steps to ensure the credibility of his o
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Dr. Carter G.
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Few authors or journalists probe with more specificity and irony the dynamic of race and class than Lawrence Otis Graham (Member of the Club), who has devoted the bulk of his 13 books to this
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the greatest scorer in the history of professional basketball by perfecting a game based on finesse, agility and phenomenal shot-making technique rather than brute forc
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There won't be many more honest and revealing works this year than Clapton: The Autobiography.
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Music journalist Rick Coleman's insightful, often controversial new biography Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll is both a loving tribute and a bold alternative cultur
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A welcome departure from the grim accounts in the Arsenault volume comes via Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor.
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Distinguished critic, editor and writer Anatole Broyard spent 18 years penning literary criticism for the New York Times, while cultivating a reputation as a highly sophisticated, elegant arti
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Paul Rusesabagina has never considered himself a hero or an activist, even though his actions saved the lives of more than a thousand people.
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Noted historian Nell Irvin Painter goes back even further than the days of the covered wagon with Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings: 1619 to the Present.
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Art’s ability to entertain is readily acknowledged, but its motivational and inspirational qualities aren’t always recognized.
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In his provocative new book, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America, author, educator and activist Michael Eric Dyson rekindles grim memories for readers who
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Tales of conflict, brutality and oppression have unfortunately become so commonplace in the 24/7 news cycle that many people are no longer shocked or horrified by these accounts.
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While there's been plenty written about Andy Grove, longtime chairman and CEO of computer chip-maker Intel, no one has ever chronicled his business acumen and personal attributes more thoroughly
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Steve Wozniak's iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, written with Gina Smith, is part confessional, part stra
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More than a decade ago, historian and law professor Annette Gordon-Reed triggered a firestorm in academic circles with her book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.
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There aren't too many folk other than historians who know that there was a time when African Americans ruled horse racing.
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Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of a Horse and a Man Who Changed the World also documents an animal-based story, but quite a different one.
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Though contemporary politicians on both sides of the aisle often either fondly praise or viciously attack the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, there really aren't that many
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One historical area where African-American involvement is frequently overlooked is in the development of the American West.
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America’s Great Migration, which saw over six million black Americans relocate from the South to either the North, Midwest or West over the period from 1915-1970, has certainly been the subje
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Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance, a collection edited by Texas Southern University history professor Dr. Gary D.
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Newsweek technology writer Steven Levy's The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness not only looks at how the notion of downloading and compiling a personal s
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<b>Kenya's green warrior</b> In many African nations, being a voice of dissent is tricky business in the post- colonial era.
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Oral Lee Brown's story of perseverance and triumph goes far beyond being a heart-warming narrative.
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W.W.
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Thomas Fleming's Mysteries of My Father: An Irish-American Memoir is a heartening, sometimes painful, instructive tale about immigration that humanizes the ethnic clashes and odd dynamics cine
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There's plenty of debate out there among people far more literate in science and economics than I regarding the merits of neuroeconomics, including questions about whether it's one discipline or th
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In the beautifully illustrated and elaborate Will The Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America, co-published by The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, editors Paul Kingsbury and Al
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While the record is spotty regarding the arrival of the first African Americans, there's even less in print about the remarkable exploits of Thornton Blackburn and his wife Lucie.
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<b>Peggy Lee's fever pitch</b>
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Tim Hashaw's The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown follows the inaugural voyage of almost 30 African men, women and children to these
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<b>Rampersad's detailed look at the once-invisible man</b> Ralph Ellison's incomparable 1952 novel <i>Invisible Man</i> was a 20th-century masterpiece that personalized raci
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Accuracy and fairness have been the major qualities of Michele Norris’ work as a print and broadcast journalist.
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Raymond Arsenault's Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice covers a shorter, more specific time frame.
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Distinguished biographer Peter Guralnick's essential new book Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke finally puts Cooke's cultural impact into its larger and proper context.
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Former U.S.
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Long before crossover and eclectic became part of the journalistic vernacular, Dinah Washington defied categorization and embraced any and every type of song.
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No matter how much people think they know about the slavery era, books like Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton and Lois E.
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One missing piece in HBO's otherwise marvelous series Band of Brothers was the role played during World War II by nonwhite combatants.
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While no less a celebrated figure than W.C. Fields often touted the versatility and talent of Bert Williams, the first black performer to appear on Broadway, Camille F.
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There are few portraits more beloved in jazz than that of Dizzy Gillespie playing his upturned horn, cheeks billowing as notes come cascading out.
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Donald Bogle's previous books chronicling black contributions to film and television have set the stage for his latest work Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood.
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Sad events and occasions for grief happen to everyone, and no two people react in identical fashion.
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Though they only met in person three times, each encounter between former slave turned outspoken freedom fighter Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln was monumental.
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All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make and Spend Their Fortunes, by journalists Peter W.
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Mark J. Penn's Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes looks at the economy from the perspective of a cultural and political analyst.
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Few epic celebrations have predated more dire events than the 1939 New York World’s Fair, nicknamed “The World of Tomorrow.” Its futuristic exhibits and architecture were designed
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Wes Moore—Rhodes scholar, army officer and one-time Special Assistant to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—discovered one day in a newspaper article that he shared a name with someone
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Author and journalist Caille Millner has been dealing with unique situations most of her life, from being a black woman growing up in a mostly Latino neighborhood to moving into and through the world
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