Margaret Kimberley
Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents, which was published by Steerforth Press on February 4, 2020. She wrote the preface to The Black Agenda, to be published by OR Books in May 2022 and she also contributed to the OR Books anthology, In Defense of Julian Assange, which was published in October 2019.
Ms. Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, which she co-founded in 2006 with Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon. Her work can be found on twitter @freedomrideblog and at patreon.com/margaretkimberley.
Works
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
Prejudential is a concise, authoritative exploration of America's relationship with race and black Americans through the lens of the presidents who are elected to represent and govern all of its people.
Throughout the history of the United States, numerous presidents have been remembered as slaveholders, bigots and inciters of racial violence, but were others generally regarded as more sympathetic to the plight and interests of black Americans—such as Lincoln, FDR and Clinton—really much better? And what of all the presidents whose interactions with and impacts on the lives of black America are hardly considered at all? Over the course of 45 chapters—one for each president—Kimberley examines the condition of black America through the attitudes and actions of the highest elected official in the country.
In Defense of Julian Assange anthology
Awards and Recognition
- Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press Women in Media Award
- Board Member of Consortium News
- Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism
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Location
New York, NY
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Category
General Non-Fiction, Journalism, Biography & History, Essays