- Jabari Asim
Jabari Asim was born August 11, 1962. He is the former deputy editor of
The Washington Post 's "Book World" section. He is now the editor of theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People 's magazine, "The Crisis " and a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Heauthor ed, "The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why", in2007 , and was interviewed onBook TV on5 May 2007 . He is also contributor to a book onerotica , "Brown Sugar", as well as numerous books for children, among them, "Daddy Goes to Work". His next book, "What Obama Means," will be published by William Morrow in February '09. Before coming to the Washington Post, he was arts editor of theSt. Louis Post-Dispatch . His journalism has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Essence and Salon.com. He lives inBaltimore, Maryland , with his wife and five children.
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