The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kevin Merida

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kevin Merida

3/20/2014; 5/21/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2014.098

Journalist and author Kevin Merida (1957 - ) was the first African American managing editor of The Washington Post, and was co-author of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas and Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs. Merida was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/20/2014 and 5/21/2014, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 10; Total Run Time: 04h 50m 49s

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Merida, Kevin

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Journalist and author Kevin Merida was born in 1957 in Wichita, Kansas, and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. Merida received his B.S. degree in journalism in 1979 from Boston University, where he was also editor of the student newspaperBlackfolk. He went on to graduate from the Summer Program for Minority Journalists at the University of California at Berkeley.In 1979, Merida was hired as a general assignments reporter and rotating city desk editor forThe Milwaukee Journal. From 1983 to 199...