Ron Stodghill is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the New York Times, Time, Business Week, and Savoy, for which he was editor in chief. He is the author of Redbone, a true-crime story. His work has been anthologized in Brotherman and has appeared in Slate, Essence, Black Enterprise, and Ebony. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he is a professor at Johnson C. Smith University, in Charlotte, N.C.