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Rob Redding's New Book ''The Professor'' Hits Number One


Rob Redding
Rob Redding

Syndicated talk host and professor Rob Redding has a new hard hitting book on gays in black leadership, which topped two of Amazon's lists of new books on Wednesday. His new controversial book "The Professor: Witnessing White Power" reached number one on Amazon's "New Releases in LGBT Literary Criticism" and "New Releases in Gay & Lesbian Literary Criticism."

"The Professor," which details how gay interracial relationships and encounters have shaped black power, dissects the sex lives of Jean-Michel Basquiat, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye, Richard Pryor and Malcolm X. It contains explosive new information about Basquiat's relationship with Klaus Nomi.

"Much of the book works from Jane Ward's book 'Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men'," said Redding. "Ward, who is a lesbian, writes about power exchanges between white men. The Professor explores how gay interracial relationships and encounters may have empirically had an impact on the black community."

Redding -- the first out bisexual black radio talk show host -- is heard by a black mainstream audience in 20 states. He's taught at Pace and City Tech universities in New York and has published "Black Voices, White Power: Members of the Black Press Make Meaning of Media Hegemony" in the Journal of Black Studies in 2017.

Redding has grown his audience far beyond his six years at SiriusXM and numerous stations including WAOK-AM/Atlanta, WURD-AM/Philadelphia, WERE-AM/Cleveland, Green 960 AM/San Francisco and KKXX-FM in California. The show helms from his website ReddingNewsReview.com, a leading source for black news on the Internet for 20 years. He's also won an award from the Associated Press and three consecutive Black Web Awards.

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