Les Payne
Legendary Journalist Les Payne Wins Posthumous Award for New Malcolm X Biography
On November 18, 2020, the 2020 National Book Award for nonfiction was awarded to Les Payne (posthumously) and his daughter and principal researcher Tamara ...
Fare Thee Well: Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter and Editor Was a True Giant
Randall Pinkston, former CBS and Al Jazeera correspondent, Tamara Payne, Les’ daughter and Les, enjoy a laugh. Tamara Payne collection–Facebook [Speaking Truth ...
LES PAYNE, My “Brother” –Intellectual Reporter– Loved the Roots of his African Tree; Rest In Peace
Les regaling guests at one of his annual salons. Photo: Colin Benjamin [Commentary] Tuesday morning I was having late breakfast at a Spanish ...
Les Payne, former Newsday editor, inducted into Deadline Club Hall of Fame
Les Payne. Photo: Flickr Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose four decades at Newsday were spent as much as a chronicler of some ...
Dick Gregory — Speaking Truth To Power In 1971 Interview
Dick Gregory. Photo-Gregory’s Facebook page Gem from the archives: The following are excerpts from an interview with Dick Gregory by Les Payne, published in ...
Les Payne: A Journalist in Full
Les Payne. Photo. SUNY Oswego-Flickr [From The archives] Originally published in Northeast Magazine, 1986 For a young black student fresh from “separate but ...
Did Breslin, Legendary Journalist Who Inspired Me, Die With Secret About Malcolm X’s Death?
Breslin. Photo: Biography.com Jimmy Breslin, one of American journalism’s greatest writers, who spoke with a vibrant voice that won him numerous awards including a ...
How Chuck Berry’s lesser tunes fell on my adolescent ears
Chuck Berry. Photo–www.chuckberry.com [Remembrance] I called my brother John immediately upon hearing the sad news. “I know you’re calling about Chuck Berry,” John said. ...
