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, a longtime TV journalist in the U.S, and the author of Civil Rights Baby: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism.
Photo by Lucie Cervantes
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 and move toward new goalposts.
And, 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 award-winning 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: My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism shows my life as symbolic of striving and aspirational people from varying walks of life.
Readers call my memoir a guidebook that helps them 1) stay on track with their pursuits and 2) soar over obstacles. Let’s plan an event for the people you serve.
Photo: Discussing Civil Rights Baby with Malaysian publishers at Frankfurter Buchmesse / Frankfurt Book Fair, 2019.
