īoyd was managing editor of The Black World Today, a now-defunct online news service. His biography Baldwin's Harlem was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 2009. Allen, was given the 1995 American Book Award. īrotherman, which Boyd co-edited with Robert L. In 2014, the National Association of Black Journalists inducted Boyd into its Hall of Fame. He has been recognized with awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the New York Association of Black Journalists. 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 also co-developed and instructed the initial curriculum in jazz studies at the Oberlin Conservatory. 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 met Malcolm X in 1958 and credits him as an inspiration: " 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." īoyd attended Wayne State University, graduating with a BA degree in philosophy. Biography īoyd was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He teaches black studies at the City College of New York and the College of New Rochelle. His articles appear regularly in the New York Amsterdam News. Herb Boyd (born November 1, 1938) is an American journalist, teacher, author, and activist. Journalist, teacher, author, and activist
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