Dr. Michael Datcher received his B.S. from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. from UC Riverside in English Literature. He is the author of the
New York Times Bestseller
Raising Fences and the critically-acclaimed Ferguson-area historical novel
Americus. His book
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Datcher has made numerous media appearances, including
Oprah,
Today Show and
Dateline. Dr. Michael Datcher is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Writing at New York University's School of Liberal Studies.
Frank Morrison started his journey as a graffiti artist in New Jersey, tagging walls with spray paint. It wasn't until he visited the Louvre Museum in Paris as part of the Sugar Hill Gang's dance entourage that he realized painting was his true creative path. His work has been featured at Art Basel, SCOPE Miami Beach, and Red Dot art fairs, and shown at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Mason Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta. He is the illustrator of over twenty children's books, including the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe Award winner
Jazzy Miz Mozetta, and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor books
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone and
Let the Children March. Frank was a Society of Illustrators Original Art Silver Medal Honoree two years in a row, for
The Roots of Rap and
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. 
