He graduated from Lincoln University in 1966. Located in southern
Chester County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the historically
black institution is also the alma mater of such prominent individuals
as Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Roscoe Lee Browne and Kwame Nkrumah.
In addition to teaching at The University of Pennsylvania, he also
teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Author of the tome "Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network
Television" (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)