Author
and Activist
Herb Boyd is an awarding winning author and journalist who has published sixteen books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. “Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America – An Anthology,” (One World/Ballantine, 1995) co-edited with Robert Allen of the Black Scholar journal, won the American Book Award for nonfiction. In 1999, Boyd won three first place awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists for his articles published in the Amsterdam News. Among his most popular books are “Black Panthers for Beginners” (Writers & Readers, 1995), “Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told By Those Who Lived It” (Doubleday, 2000), “Race and Resistance: African Americans in the 21st Century” (South End Press, 2002), “The Harlem Reader” (Crown Publishers, 2003), “We Shall Overcome: A History of the Civil Rights Movement” (Sourcebooks, 2004), and “Pound for Pound: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson” (Amistad, 2005).
In 2006, Boyd worked with world music composer Yusef Lateef on his autobiography “The Gentle Giant” which was published by Morton Books of New Jersey. He is currently under contract to complete a book on James Baldwin, and is working with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp on several projects. Boyd has been inducted into both the Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent and the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame as a journalist.
Along with his writing, Boyd is also the managing editor of The Black World Today, one of the leading online publications on the Internet. Boyd, a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit, teaches African and African-American History at the College of New Rochelle in the Bronx, and is an adjunct instructor at City College in the Black Studies Department.