As a little girl, I never dreamed of a time that an African American woman would be published by mainstream media.
Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds
Journalist, minister, author of seven books, and over fifty years telling it like it is.
Her reporting and commentary have appeared in
- The Washington Post
- USA Today
- Chicago Tribune
- Ebony
- Essence
- CNN
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
New release
The Rise and Fall of the Techno-Messiah: Artificial Intelligence and the End Times
What happens to faith when worship of the created starts replacing the Creator? Dr. Reynolds brings a journalist’s eye and a theologian’s training to the age of artificial intelligence. Written for readers, college classrooms and church study groups.
$29.95 · Paperback
Books by Dr. Reynolds
Biography, memoir, faith and healing, from 1975 to today.
Coretta Scott King: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
As told to Rev. Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds
Coretta Scott King: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Memoir · 2017 · NYT Bestseller
No, I Won't Shut Up
30 years of telling it like it is
No, I Won’t Shut Up
JFJ Publishing · 1998
Jesse Jackson: America's David
Barbara A. Reynolds
Jesse Jackson: America’s David
JFJ Publishing · 1984
“One of my greatest inspirations came from my friendship with the King family.”
On thirty years as confidante to Coretta Scott King
- Washington Post Book to Read Coretta Scott King memoir
- New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice 2017
- USA Today “New and Noteworthy” pick 2017
- Publishers Weekly Notable African-American Titles 2017
- Spoke at the Palace of Westminster, London March 2018
Bring Dr. Reynolds to your event
Keynotes, sermons, commencement addresses and panels on civil rights, faith, women’s leadership, media and the next steps for the movement.
- Civil rights & social justice
- Coretta Scott King’s strategy for change
- Extraordinary Black women
- Faith and technology
- Journalism & the press
- Healing from addiction
- How we overcome again
- US presidents I’ve interviewed
- 2018UK book tour Palace of Westminster, University College London, University of Birmingham
- October 2010National Council of Negro Women Keynote, Montgomery County
- September 1999Lucent Technologies Keynote, Sheraton Hilton, Washington DC
- January 1999City of Knoxville MLK commemoration speech
- June 1990Women in Communications “Media, Gender and Racial Apartheid”
Check her availability for your date.
Journalist, minister, history maker
The Reverend Dr. Barbara A. Reynolds has spent more than fifty years in American newsrooms, from Ebony and the Chicago Tribune to USA Today, where she was a founding editor and served on the editorial board for thirteen years. She has interviewed Presidents Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Obama.
In 1965 she registered Black voters in the King Movement. Today she is an ordained minister, chaplain for Black Women for Positive Change, and founder of Harriet’s Ministry, a weekly healing conversation for women recovering from addiction.
- 50+ years in journalism
- 7 published books
- 13 years on USA Today’s editorial board
- 4 US presidents interviewed
- D.Min. United Theological Seminary
- Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
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