- He grew up in Baltimore and Youngstown, Ohio, and had never been in the Deep South before going to Mississippi to cover the trial of Emmett Till's accused killers.
- He was the Washington DC bureau chief of Jet and Ebony magazines for five decades. He was the first full-time black reporter for the Washington Post before writing for Jet and Ebony. He covered 10 presidents, and traveled to southeast Asia to report on the Vietnam War.
- He received an English degree from Virginia Union University, a historically black school in Richmond. He began his career at the Baltimore Afro-American and later joined the Cleveland Call and Post.
- He reported on the civil rights struggle in the South. For safety, he sometimes posed as a minister, or wore overalls to look like a sharecropper.
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