Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a journalist, author, and media critic.
Hutchinson is also the author of nine books about the African American experience. He serves as the President of the National Alliance for Positive Action, and is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Blacknews.com and Blackamerica.web.com. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He has written for The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the Chicago Tribune and Jewish Currents.
He regularly contributed to the weekly Guardian 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 Klansman James Ford Seale. 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, Salon, Newsweek, The New York Times, 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 and MSNBC News Shows. He is the host of the Hutchinson Report Newsmaker hour on KTYM AM in Los Angeles and the Hutchinson Report on Pacific Radio KPFK FM.
His father, Earl Hutchinson Sr., is the lead author of A Colored Man's Journey Through 20th Century Segregated America. His daughter Sikivu Hutchinson is a feminist atheist activist and author.
Hutchinson has taken part in the controversy about Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, accusing the former pontiff of being complicit in the crimes of the Nazis.
Hutchinson is also the founder of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable (LAUPR), which sponsors community forums and provides grant funding to nonprofit grassroots organizations. The LAUPR's Impact Micro Awards are made to support organizations and individuals that have a proven track record of commitment to building community sustainability projects, activities, and service. Grantees have included the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, Eso Won Bookstore, Korean American Historical Society and Centro Latino for Literacy.
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