Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a journalist, author and broadcaster. Hutchinson is also the author of nine books about the African American experience. He serves as the President of the National Alliance for Positive Action, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post.

He regularly contributed to the weekly leftist Guardian in the decade before it folded (1992).

His 1996 "Betrayed: The Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives" contributed to publicizing the 1964 murders of two African American teenagers by Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale [ [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/the-indictment-of-james-f_b_39602.html Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Indictment of James Ford Seale Doesn't Close the Book on Old Racial Murders - The Huffington Post ] ] ; Seale was eventually tried and convicted, and in August 2007 he was sentenced to three consecutive life terms. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/us/25klan.html?em&ex=1188187200&en=6f0081d50207d379&ei=5087%0A Ex-Klansman Is Sentenced to Life for Killings in 1964 - New York Times ] ]

Hutchinson has a doctorate in sociology from the unaccredited Pacific Western University. [Buffalo News (March 1, 1995) "Author covering O.J. Trial to Speak." Local section, page B6.]

His father, Earl Hutchinson Sr., is the lead author of "A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America".

Books by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

*"The Mugging of Black America" (1991)
*"Black Fatherhood: The Guide to Male Parenting" (1994)
*"Black Fatherhood II: Black Women Talk About Their Men" (1994)
*"Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990" (1994)
*"Beyond O.J.: Race, Sex and Class Lessons For America" (1996)
*"Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives" (1996)
*"The Assassination of the Black Male Image" (1997) ISBN 0-684-83657-2
*"The Crisis in Black and Black" (1998)
*"A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America" (2000)
*"The Disappearance of Black Leadership" (2000)
*"The Emerging Black GOP Majority" (2006) ISBN 1881032191
*"The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics" (2007) ISBN 978-1-881032-22-9
*"The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House" (2008)

References

External links

* [http://www.earlofarihutchinson.com/ The Hutchinson Report]
* [http://www.alternet.org/columnists/3466/ Earl Ofari Hutchinson] at AlterNet