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Black Voices in Commentary: The Trotter Group
by Wayne Dawkins

    Publication Date: Nov 17, 2006
    List Price: $15.95
    Format: Paperback, 152 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780963572097
    Imprint: August Press
    Publisher: August Press
    Parent Company: August Press

    Paperback Description:

    Twenty three black columnists discuss their role in American journalism. The diversity of their voices is exhibited in a collection of their columns at the end of 2005 through the first half of 2006.

    There are topics that speak to every reader. Engage, enjoy and continue to follow these writers who publish weekly or several days a week in newspapers and other media.

    William Monroe Trotter [1872-1934] was perhaps the rudest African-American journalist this nation has produced. The first African-American Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard, Trotter was uncompromising. He attacked both racists and black accommodationists as editor of the Boston Guardian newspaper in the early 1900s.

    Trotter’s legacy of lone wolf protest inspired 18 African-American columnists in 1992 to establish the Trotter Group.