Michael H. Cottman

Michael H. Cottman is an award-winning journalist, author, and former political reporter for The Washington Post, Newsday, and The Miami Herald, where he contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of a 1992 New York subway crash.[1][2] He has authored at least nine books on the Black experience in America, including The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie, Shackles From the Deep, Million Man March, and Segregated Skies, and has appeared on NPR, CNN, the History Channel, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.[1][2][3] Currently, he serves as Assistant to the Dean and Lecturer at Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication, and has held roles such as program editor for NBCUniversal News Group’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Team.[1][3]