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Feb 21, 2023 · In The State of the Black Family, the economist Robert Cherry presents a blueprint for a robust set of policies that can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and move these families forward by providing direct family support, practical educational approaches, housing policies to reinvigorate neighborhoods, and on-ramps to higher-paying ...
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Jun 12, 2023 · Bob has been studying race, labor, and inequality—among many other topics—for decades now. His new book, The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope.
- Glenn Loury
Apr 10, 2023 · Robert Cherry is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, a City Journal contributor, and author of The State of the Black Family: Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope.
- Early Life
- Wilt: Larger Than Life
- Other Books
- Journalism
- Business Life
- Teaching
- Literary Influences
- References
Cherry has spent most of his life in Philadelphia or its suburbs, save for stints reporting in Phoenix, editing in New York and teaching in Liberia. He attended Philadelphia public schools, graduating in 1961 from Overbrook High School, six years after Chamberlain. And like Chamberlain, Cherry started on the Overbrook varsity basketball team—althou...
After Chamberlain died at age 63 in October 1999, Cherry spent almost five years researching and writing this biography. He crisscrossed the country interviewing over 150 personal and professional associates who knew Chamberlain well, among them his doctor, lawyer, accountant, and college roommate; high school, college and professional teammates an...
Living Liberia: Laugher, Love & Folly: (2017) is a memoir/travel book of Cherry’s life as a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in the Liberian rainforest where he spent 1966-67, his 22nd and 23rd years—and later, age 38, he returned for a two-month visit in 1982. The book first evokes the challenges of living for two years without electricity and r...
Cherry has worked for three newspapers, including The Arizona Republic, 1971-73, and his freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Jerusalem Post, among others. From 1980-81 he was also the editor and publisher of Philly Week, named by Frommer’s 1981-82 Guide to Philadelphia & At...
Cherry was President of Great American Foods Inc, from 1985-90. GAF was a Philadelphia company started by his father in 1949. It manufactured salad dressings and mayonnaise and sold the product to wholesale food distributors in the northeastern United States. Cherry sold the company in 1990 to Holsum Foods of Waukesha, Wisconsin but continued to ru...
Cherry taught school in a Liberian village from 1966-67, where most of his students were the first person from their families to attend school. He also taught 5th and 6thgrade (1969-70) in a Philadelphia elementary school, T.M. Peirce; and journalism at Temple University (1978), literary journalism at Cabrini College (2006), and public speaking and...
H.L. Mencken, Red Smith , A.J. Liebling , and Malcolm Muggeridge , the last three of whom Cherry has also written about.
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Feb 20, 2020 · Robert Cherry: You know, there's, an argument that says, well, if you look at the slave economy. It was responsible for generating a railroad industry, a manufacturing sector, and other allied kinds of factors. And it's sort of double counting, triple counting. So you can get, that's how they get a number, like 50%.
Jan 1, 2014 · Robert Cherry, the acclaimed biographer of Wilt Chamberlain, spent three years writing his own parents’ inspiring story, gathering material from government and synagogue archives in the Ukraine, his father’s diaries, family letters, and interviews with friends and relatives.
Robert Cherry has been a teacher, journalist, businessman and author. His first book, "Wilt: Larger Than Life," is considered the definitive biography of the American sports legend, Wilt Chamberlain.
