Charles Blow
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BIOGRAPHY

Charles M. Blow has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since 2008. 

He joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director.  He has also worked at National Geographic and The Detroit News.

Blow is the author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, which was released in September 2014. He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications. He lives in Brooklyn and has three children.

 

photograph: Ā© Beowulf Sheehan. Reproduced with permission.

Primary Contributions (3)
Freddie Mae Rhodes
June 19, 1956, fell on a Tuesday. It was 90 years to the day from the first celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the day when enslaved Africans in Texas became the last in the nation to receive word of their freedom, more than a year after the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the…
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Publications (2)
The Devil You Know A Black Power Manifesto
The Devil You Know A Black Power Manifesto (2021)
By Charles M. Blow

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Editor's Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

The Inspiration for the HBO Original Documentary South to Black Power

From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, "a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction;...

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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2015)
By Charles M. Blow
A New York Times Notable Book - Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award

Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age. Washington Blade

[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting. New York Times


Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist s indelible coming-of-age tale.

Charles M. Blow s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her...
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