Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a journalist, author, and broadcaster.

Hutchinson is also the author of nine books about the African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

 experience. He serves as the President of the National Alliance for Positive Action, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post

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, Blacknews.com and Blackamerica.web.com. He is an associate editor of New America Media.

He regularly contributed to the weekly Guardian

Guardian (United States)

The Guardian was a radical leftist independent weekly newspaper published between 1948 and 1992 in New York City. The paper was founded by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage and John T. McManus.-Formation:...

 in the decade before it folded (1992).

His 1996 Betrayed: The Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives contributed to publicizing the 1964 murders of two African American teenagers by Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...

sman James Ford Seale

James Ford Seale

James Ford Seale was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24, 2007, and subsequently convicted on June 14, 2007, for the May 1964 kidnapping of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi...

. Seale was eventually tried and convicted, and in August 2007 he was sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Hutchinson has written extensively on race and politics in The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and Baltimore Sun.

His featured interviews and comments on race and politics have appeared in Time

Time (magazine)

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, Salon, Newsweek

Newsweek

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, The New York Times

The New York Times

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, and ABC's World News Tonight. He is a frequent guest analyst on: Fox News John Gibson Show, O'Reilly Show, Hannity & Colmes, Glenn Beck Show, PBS Lehrer Report, NPR's Talk of the Nation, and Various CNN News Shows.

His father, Earl Hutchinson Sr., is the lead author of A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America.

Hutchinson has taken part in the controversy about Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

The relationship between Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust has long been disputed, with some scholars arguing that he kept silent during the Holocaust, while others have argued that he saved thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of Jews....

, accusing the former pontiff of being complicit in the crimes of the Nazis.

Books by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

• The Mugging of Black America (1991) ISBN 978-0913543214
• Black Fatherhood: The Guide to Male Parenting (1994) ISBN 978-1881032090
• Black Fatherhood II: Black Women Talk About Their Men (1994) ISBN 978-1881032106
• Blacks and Reds: Race and Class in Conflict, 1919-1990 (1994)ISBN 978-0870133619
• Beyond O.J.: Race, Sex and Class Lessons For America (1996) ISBN 978-1881032120
• Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives (1996) ISBN 978-0813324661
• The Assassination of the Black Male Image (1997) ISBN 0-684-83657-2
• The Crisis in Black and Black (1998) ISBN 978-1881032151
• A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America (2000) ISBN 978-1881032175
• The Disappearance of Black Leadership (2000)ISBN 978-1881032168
• The Emerging Black GOP Majority (2006) ISBN 1881032191
• The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics (2007) ISBN 978-1-881032-22-9
• The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (2008)ISBN 978-1881032250
• How the GOP Can Keep the White House, How the Democrats Can Take it Back (2008)ISBN 978-1881032359
• How Obama Won (2009) ISBN 978-1439219294

External links

• The Hutchinson Political Report
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson at AlterNet
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