Life Lessons - Softcover

Riley, Rochelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093724743X ISBN 13: 9780937247433

Publisher: Detroit Free Press, 2003

In "Life Lessons," award-winning Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley writes with passion about subjects ranging from popular culture to family to politics to education. This collection includes her memorable columns about 9/11 and her crusade for adult literacy in Detroit.

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About the Author:

ROCHELLE RILEY's award-winning columns appear in the Detroit Free Press, at freep.com and in newspapers in the USA Today Network nationwide. She hosts a weekday radio talk show on 910AM WFDF in Detroit and makes frequent television appearances on MSNBC as well as local stations WDIV-TV 4 and Fox 2. Rochelle is the author of "The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery" (Wayne State University Press, 2018). Rochelle has worked at The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News and The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., where her debut column calling for a museum to honor native son Muhammad Ali helped spur an $80 million campaign to build the Muhammad Ali Center. Rochelle's honors include a National Headliner Award, a National Scripps Howard Award and numerous first-place honors from Associated Press-Managing Editors, the Michigan Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists and NABJ. Her columns about the fall of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick were part of the entry that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting. She was a 2016 finalist for the ASNE Mike Royko Award for Commentary/Column Writing. And she is the 2017 winner of the NABJ Ida B. Wells Award, an annual honor given to an individual who has made outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. The Ida B. Wells Award is named in honor of the distinguished journalist, fearless reporter and wife of one of America's earliest black publishers and is awarded by NABJ and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Rochelle was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she studied online communities and film. And she was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. To invite Rochelle to speak, emcee an event or moderate a panel, visit rochelleriley.com.

Review:

"Rochelle doesn't write for herself. She writes for all parents, all workers, all of us." -- Dennis Archer, former mayor of Detroit

"Rochelle's articles are honest, forthright and caring, especially as it relates to how Detroit is perceived." -- Dave Bing, chairman of the Bing Group and former Detroit Pistons star

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