Mark Whitaker

Official Panelist

2024 Participant · Non-Fiction · History

Mark Whitaker
Mark Whitaker

Mark is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir My Long Trip Home, and Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance. The former managing editor of CNN Worldwide, he was previously the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and a reporter and editor at Newsweek, where he rose to become the first African American leader of a national newsweekly.

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Book Title(s)

  • Saying It Loud: 1966–The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

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