That's one of two memoirs that are works in progress. For more than 12+ years, I've been taping, videotaping, photographing, blogging, writing, posting on listservs and social media and using ethnographic and investigative reporting and research techniques to develop archives of information for my project – a book first. I am an award-winning journalism professor and former workhorse news reporter: Democrat & Chronicle (police, crime, organized crime, Gannett Newspaper in Rochester, NY) Washington Star (defunct as of 1981, crime, county politics, courts), Time magazine, New York Post, several ethnic newspapers, such as the New York Amsterdam News and ethnic news organizations like New America Media. A Journalist in Aging Fellowship, sponsored by the Gerontological Society of American and New America Media, supported my five-part series published in the New York Amsterdam News and also published in New America Media about the quality of life of black seniors living in the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York.
Two books by William Morrow & Co.: 1) The Kids Next Door: Sons and Daughters Who Killed Their Parents; 2) Unspeakable Acts: The Ordeal of Thomas Waters-Rimmer, NY Times Notable Book of the Year, 1993. I stumbled upon Stage 32 because of a news website I publish with my students and other faculty where we write lots of film reviews and stories because we are invited to cover every major film festival in New York City. Getting ready for Tribeca 2019. I got into this more than my students.
My second work in progress:. I was the assistant basketball coach at my alma mater, Cornell University, during the most contentious and controversial period in the history of the athletic department sparked by a walk-off protest by the black ball players. The real story has never been told. Before coaching, I had been captain of my team, All-Ivy, Athletic Hall of Fame, etc. If I hadn't destroyed my knee playing pro basketball in Portugal, I wouldn't have turned to journalism and writing to soothe my existential angst.
