Robin Stone presenting, My Times in Black and White by Gerald Boyd

Start: 04/14/2010 7:00 pm

"An inspiring and riveting tale."

Patrick Henry Bass, Senior Editor, Essence

Gerald M. Boyd was the first black managing editor at the New York Times. During his 20-year tenure with the Times, he served various roles, including White House correspondent. Prior to his work at the Times, he had a career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Neiman Fellow at Harvard, he was a board member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and was named the Journalist of the Year by the National Associated of Black Journalists. Gerald M. Boyd passed away on November 23, 2006.

Robin D. Stone is the author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse; a former deputy editor of Health magazine; a former executive editor of Essence magazine; and the founding editor-in-chief of www.essence.com. She has written articles for the Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, and the New York Times.