Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati

by Mark Curnutte

Overview

Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte’s stories published in The Cincinnati Enquirer over a twenty-five-year period beginning in 1993.  With hard-won insights gained from years of community reporting, Curnutte describes experiences of African-Americans living in Cincinnati through individual and neighborhood profiles, explorations of community institutions, historical perspectives, and issue stories.  The anthology tells a sweeping narrative of a city suffering and maturing through turn-of-the-century racial growing pains and increased racial sophistication and diversity. These stories are complimented by excerpts from Curnutte’s personal journal, providing his reflection on his role as a white man and reporter making the intentional decision to work and live across the color line.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947602014
Publisher:	University of Cincinnati Press
Publication date:	12/15/2019
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mark Curnutte is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, his alma mater. He is a career newspaper reporter who worked 25 years at the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team for “Seven Days of Heroin” in 2017 and was selected Best Reporter in Ohio three times (2012, ’13 and ’18) by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). He is the author of A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter’s Notes on Families and Daily Lives, published in 2011, and was a winner of the Foreword Reviews 2011 award for a book in the social sciences . He lives in Cincinnati with his wife, Diana Maria Lara.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword Nathaniel R. Jones xi

Prologue: A Race through Time xiii

Introduction: Into the Marvelous Light 1

1 1993: A Polite Silence 20

2 Neighborhoods 28

3 Avondale 37

4 Black History Month 58

5 Coming of Age 75

6 Military 97

7 Institutions 115

8 The NAACP 139

9 The Black Family 150

10 Million Man March 162

11 Icons 168

12 The NFL Beat 183

13 Baseball 203

14 The Newest Black Cincinnatians 217

15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 223

16 The Streets 231

17 Issues 241

18 Lives Remembered 255

Author's Postscript 269

Afterword Tom Callinan 277

Appendix: Epilogues 281

Bibliography 287

Index 289