When Vera Warren-Williams started the Community Book Center 40 years ago, she was a substitute teacher who wanted to address the lack of books by and about people of African descent in New Orleans’ public schools at the time. Since then the CBC has evolved into one of the city’s cultural institutions that has served […]
Lottie L. Joiner
Lottie L. Joiner, assistant managing editor at Verite, is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience covering issues that impact underserved and marginalized communities. She is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis Magazine, the official publication of the NAACP. During her tenure at The Crisis, the quarterly journal won several national awards for its coverage of social justice issues, Black history, African American art and culture.
