Robin Stone - My Times in Black and White

Start: Fri, 02/19/2010 - 6:00pm

After a career of many firsts, journalist Gerald M. Boyd shattered the color barrier of the white establishment's most exclusive media giant, the New York Times, and became its first black managing editor. Boyd's tale provides a rare inside view of power and behind-the-scenes politics at the nation's premier newspaper during one of its tumultous periods. Before the New York Times, Boyd was at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked his way up from copyboy to White House correspondent. A native of St. Louis, Boyd attended the University of Missouri under a Post-Dispatch scholarship program and Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He died in November 2006 at the age of 56. Robin D. Stone, who was married to Boyd, is an independent journalist who has edited for several publications, including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Essence Magazine. She is the author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse, and she will be speaking about Boyd's book, My Times in Black and White, at this event.

Location:

Left Bank Books Downtown
321 N 10th Street
Saint Louis, Missouri 63101