Michael H. Cottman, an award-winning journalist and author, is a former reporter for The Washington Post. He is presently a Senior Writer for BlackAmericaWeb.com, a division of Radio One/REACH Media Inc., the nation’s largest black-owned media company.
Cottman is also a lecturer at Howard University in Washington, D.C., one of America’s most prestigious black colleges, where he teaches in the department of journalism.
He has spent the past 25 years reporting about politics, social issues, education and the black experience. Cottman has interviewed and written about some of the world’s most prominent news makers, including former South African President Nelson Mandela, the late John F. Kennedy Jr., historian John Hope Franklin, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Cottman, a certified scuba diver who has traveled the world, is the author of three books, including Million Man March, (Random House) the first book to commemorate the historic event, and The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie, (Random House) the story of a sunken 17th Century slave ship that sank off the coast of Key West, and the black scuba divers who helped explore the 300-year-old vessel.
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