UtenteAlycee_Lane

I am an Oakland, California-based writer and blogger.

A graduate of Howard University, I studied English literature and later obtained my Doctorate of Philosophy from UCLA, where I specialized in African American literature and culture of the civil rights and black power movements. From 1995 to 2003, I served as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which I obtained my Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall).

I am author of the award-winning book, Nonviolence Now! Living the 1963 Birmingham Campaign’s Promise of Peace (Lantern Books, 2015) as well as the blog Coming in From the Cold, where I explore political issues through the prism of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence.

In addition to Nonviolence Now! and Coming in From the Cold, I have written a number of scholarly and other articles on subjects ranging from the Black Panther Party to mitigation evidence in death penalty cases to climate change. In 1993, I was awarded the Audre Lorde Quill Award from the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum for the essays and interviews that I produced for BLK, a newsmagazine dedicated to the African American gay and lesbian community, as well as for my work as editor of Black Lace, the first ever African American lesbian erotic magazine.