Donovan X. Ramsey

Longlist, 2023 National Book Awards

Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist, author, and voice on issues of race, politics, and patterns of power in America. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Ebony, and Essence.
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

ISBN 9780525511809 One World / Penguin Random House

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic More about this book >

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Donovan X. Ramsey

Donovan X. Ramsey is a journalist, author, and voice on issues of race, politics, and patterns of power in America. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, Ebony, and Essence. He has been a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, NewsOne, and TheGrio and has served as an editor at The Marshall Project and Complex. Ramsey holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Morehouse College.

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