2026’s delivery: la version française

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Every day I contemplate what I can do to help people treat each other better. I’m Nita Wiggins, a Paris-based university lecturer, public speaker, writing instructor, award-winning TV journalist, and author.

In Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism, my memoir, I unearth how I navigate a man-made obstacle course put in place to interrupt my goals.

Readers tell me my progression from Georgia in the U.S. Southeast, to Seattle in the Northwest, and on to the internationally-known city of Dallas, Texas, helps them confront rough terrain in their way.

I willingly offer my travails and triumphs under this key idea: Listen to Others as you would have them listen to you®.

COMING SOON to 300 million French-language speakers globally, Civil Rights Baby in French.

The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation awards me the (national) Michele Clark Fellowship in 1989 and tabs me as a journalist to watch.

During my 21 years as a TV sports and news reporter, Mrs. Rosa Parks, other newsmakers, and major athletes answer my interview questions.

I changed course and careers because I had to. Successful at the pivot, I train others to decide on and move toward new goalposts.

Because I had to battle for my own fair treatment, I became a subject-matter expert on U.S. civil rights.

I'm a survivor of the economic lynching of my beloved journalism career.

I coined the term economic lynching in 2014.

It’s the orchestrated choking off of a person’s career advancement, using hierarchical control and designating someone for the “noose.” Like a physical lynching, there’s a rigid insistence on ending the aspirations of the “other.”

Selecting for your book club or seeking a skilled speaker?

Civil Rights Baby shows my life as symbolic of striving and aspirational people from varying walks of life. May I present my story to your group?

Photo: Discussing Civil Rights Baby with Malaysian publishers at Frankfurter Buchmesse / Frankfurt Book Fair, 2019.

Readers say my memoir can guide them to 1) stay on track with their pursuits and 2) soar over obstacles. Let’s plan an event for the people you serve.

People are saying …

“I really appreciate the stories of brave women who managed to change their lives. That shows us that we can fulfill our dreams, not being afraid to have big ones.”

—Perrine Scheer, Wiggins’ former student at ESJ Paris