Tag: Randy Dotinga

  • Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations Christian Science Monitor 2015-12-28 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors This year, I’ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Here are some of my favorite answers. Transformation is an integral part of story-telling: How do we get…

  • Before Rachel Dolezal, what did it mean to ‘pass’? Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-22 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors Allyson Hobbs, author of ‘A Chosen Exile,’ says the debate stirred up by Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from the NAACP hits historic chords. Allyson Hobbs, a history professor at Stanford University, remembers hearing a…

  • Before Rachel Dolezal, there was Walter White The Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-15 Randy Dotinga The man known as ‘Mr. NAACP’ was blonde, blue-eyed and 5/32nd black, all of which provoked an outcry similar to that over contemporary NAACP official Rachel Dolezal. Walter White, known as “Mr. NAACP,” didn’t look black. He had blue eyes and…