About

Over the last three decades, Howard Manly has written about race, social justice, the media and the law.

An award-winning journalist, Manly was the executive editor of the Bay State Banner, Boston’s only weekly newspaper focused on African American news, business, health, and culture.

He has reported for the Boston Globe, New York Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsweek magazine, and was a columnist for the Boston Herald.

On television, Manly worked as a correspondent on “Greater Boston,” a nightly news show, and host of “Basic Black,” a public affairs show, both on PBS affiliate WGBH.

Manly is the co-author of Lift Every Voice, a nonfiction book about the Boys Choir of Harlem and Yoba: Lessons from the Street and Other Places, a nonfiction book about New York Undercover television star and community activist Malik Yoba.

A graduate of Bucknell University with a B.A. in International Relations, Howard is a Senior Fellow at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.

His most recent scholarly articles appear in the Trotter Review, a journal published by the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Manly is now working on And to the Republic: Patriotism, Dissent and the Fighting Black Press, 1890 – 1920, a non-fiction book that explores the idea of patriotism and the dangers of dissent at a time when speaking out was deemed politically subversive.