Michael Datcher

Truthdig columnist Michael Datcher is the author of the Ferguson-area historical novel “Americus” (Third World Press) and the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller “Raising Fences” (Penguin Putnam/Riverhead) — a Today Show Book Club Book of the Month pick. He is also co-host of the weekly public affairs news magazine Beautiful Struggle on KPFK in Los Angeles. Datcher is a clinical assistant professor of writing at New York University’s School of Liberal Studies.