Ishmael Reed is a prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright and the author of numerous books, including Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media and Going Too Far. He taught at the University of California-Berkeley for 35 years, as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. He lives in Oaklan...

Ishmael Reed is a prize-winning essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright and the author of numerous books, including Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media and Going Too Far. He taught at the University of California-Berkeley for 35 years, as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. He lives in Oakland, California.