William rhoden biography

William C. Rhoden is an American sports journalist and author who formerly worked as a columnist for The New York Times from 1983 until 2016, when he joined.
William C. Rhoden is an American sports journalist and author who formerly worked as a columnist for The New York Times from 1983 until 2016, when he joined ESPN's The Undefeated as a writer-at-large, where he is currently employed.
William C. Rhoden has been writing about sports for The New York Times since March 1983.

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William Rhoden

Award-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Forty MillionDollar Slaves and Third and A Mile: The Trials and Triumphs of The Black Quarterback, William C. Rhoden uses sports as a vehicle to understand an increasingly complex society. From the implications of President Obama’s election (Jackie Robinson), to the notion that the nation has somehow entered into a “post racial” era, Rhoden describes how sports has corollaries and parallels to every crucial aspect of contemporary American society.

Bio

During a career that spans more than three decades, award-winning New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden has been a jazz critic, sports columnist and social commentator. He has played college football at Yankee Stadium, accompanied a federal agent on an interdiction mission along the US-Mexican border, been a road manager for a jazz quintet and taken a 17 hour drive across Cuba.

Rhoden joined The New York Times in 1982 as an editor in the Week-In-Review section. A year later he moved to sports where he wrot

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William Rhoden

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William C. Rhoden

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William C. Rhoden has been a sportswriter for the New York Times since 1983, and has written the "Sports of the Times" column for more than a decade. He also serves as a consultant for ESPN's SportsCentury series, and occasionally appears as a guest on their show The Sports Reporters. In 1996, Rhoden won a Peabody Award for Broadcasting as writer of the HBO documentary Journey of the African-American Athlete. A graduate of Morgan State University in Baltimore, he lives in New York City's Harlem with his wife and daughter.

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Books:

Forty Million Dollar Slaves, July 2006
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