Bryant Rollins is a resident of Jacksonville, Florida and a native of Boston. He's a former Editor and writer with The New York Times, and was a reporter and political columnist with The Boston Globe, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Working with his wife and partner Shirley, Bryant has more than 40 years of experience as a consultant on race relations, diversity, equity, social justice and inclusion. Their work has focused on organizational effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities, Federal, state, and local government and community-based organizations.
He was active in the Civil Rights Movement, involved in direct action campaigns in Boston, New York and in Mound Bayou, Mississippi in the 1960s.
Bryant worked with the Ford Foundation, administering a program for minority journalists at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He edited two Black newspapers, The New York Amsterdam News and The Bay State Banner in Boston, which he also founded.
He is the author of the novel, Danger Song, co-author of entertainer Cab Calloway’s autobiography, Of Minnie the Moocher and Me, and a second novel, Vera Pilgrim and the Ritual of the Dolphins. He and Shirley have co-authored numerous articles on race relations and human differences. They have worked in domestic and international environments.
In 1968 he co-scripted RIOT!, which won a OBIE award as the best off-Broadway play of the year. He is also author of numerous articles on race relations and human differences.
His forthcoming memoir, The Slave in My Mirror, is being prepared for publishing.
