Author Talk: Wayne Dawkins

February 27th, the Adams County Library welcomes Wayne Dawkins, author of “Black Journalists: The NABJ Story,” and the sequel “Rugged Waters: Black Journalists.” Dawkins also authored the biographies “City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn,” [2012] and Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion” [2020]. Last July, Dawkins published the double biography, “Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo that Desegregated American Sports.”

He has been a professional journalist for more than 24 years, including 16 years at Gannett newspapers in Westchester, New York, and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, then NW Indiana, plus the Daily Press of Newport News-Hampton, Virginia. Dawkins transitioned to academia two decades ago and taught at Hampton’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, then moved on to Morgan State University School of Global Journalism and Communication. Dawkins returned to Hampton in fall 2024.

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