George E. Curry

George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. His weekly column is syndicated by NNPA to more than 200 African-American newspapers, with a combined readership of 15 million. Curry's work at the NNPA has ranged from being inside the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments and the final decisions in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases to traveling to Doha, Qatar to report on America's war with Iraq. Prior to joining the NNPA, Curry was editor-in-chief of Emerge: Black America's Newsmagazine, New York bureau chief and a Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a reporter for Sports Illustrated. He is the author of three books, including The Affirmative Action Debate (Perseus).

 

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