| Summary: | Author, educator and journalist Herb Boyd was born on November 1, 1938, in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated with his B.A. degree in philosophy from Wayne State University in 1969. From 1968 through 1977, Boyd worked as an instructor of African American studies and anthropology at Wayne State University, before being named president of the Jazz Research Institute in 1979. He returned to Wayne State University as an instructor of history and sociology in 1982, and, in 1986, Boyd was hired as a lecturer at the College of New Rochelle. In the 1990s, he served as the editor of Black World Today. Boyd was hired as an instructor at the City College of New York in 2005. He has written numerous articles for national publications, and has authored, co-authored or edited over twenty books, including Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin, and the award-winning Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America.
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