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 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's magazine, "The Crisis" and a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He authored, "The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why", in 2007, and was interviewed on Book TV on 5 May 2007. He is also contributor to a book on erotica, "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 the St. 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 in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife and five children.