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 of the 20th century’s…
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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 January 1971 in Uptight,…
Les Payne: A Journalist in Full
Les Payne. Photo. SUNY Oswego-Flickr Originally published in Northeast Magazine, 1986 For a young black student fresh from "separate but equal" Alabama in 1954, the stately and old…
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 1986 Pulitzer Prize “for…
How Chuck Berry’s lesser tunes fell on my adolescent ears
Chuck Berry. Photo--www.chuckberry.com I called my brother John immediately upon hearing the sad news. "I know you're calling about Chuck Berry," John said. Chuck was indeed my teenage…