The New York Times bestselling author of Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America and We Shall Overcome: A Living History of the Civil Rights Struggle Told in Words, Pictures, and the Voices of the Participants, Herb Boyd is an activist, journalist, and teacher. In 1995, with co-editor Robert Allen, Boyd received the American Book Award for Brotherman. Since 1996, he has been the national editor of The Black World Today. A noted authority on black studies, he has been teaching African and African American History for nearly forty years and currently teaches at the College of New Rochelle in the South Bronx. His history of the civil rights movement is scheduled to release in Fall 2005.