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Herb Boyd is an awarding winning author and journalist who has published 17 books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. Brotherman:The Odyssey of Black Men in America: An Anthology (One World/Ballantine, 1995), co-edited with Robert Allen of the Black Scholar journal, won the American Book Award for nonfiction. In 1999, Boyd won three first place awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists for his articles published in the Amsterdam News.

In 2006, Boyd worked with world music composer Yusef Lateef on his autobiography The Gentle Giant, which was published by Morton Books of New Jersey. In 2008, he published Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, and is working with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp on...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 161 ratings · 27 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America--An Anthology by Herb Boyd (Editor), Robert L. Allen (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson by Herb Boyd, Ray Robinson 3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Heroes Of America Illustrated Lives: Martin Luther King, Jr. (070097002232, A2237 S1195 S1495 Ca) 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Black Panthers For Beginners 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	We Shall Overcome with 2 Audio CDs: The History of the Civil Rights Movement as It Happened by Herb Boyd, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	African History For Beginners 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented by Herb Boyd (Editor), Ron Daniels (Editor), Maulana Karenga (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	My rating: