Charles M. Blow is an author, journalist, cultural critic and political commentator.
Mr. Blow was a longtime OpEd columnist at The New York Times, and he has been named Harvard University’s inaugural Langston Hughes Fellow.
He has been a political analyst on MSNBC, a contributor on CNN, and the anchor of PRIME with Charles Blow on the Black News Channel.
Mr. Blow hosts “Ideas at Ford with Charles Blow,” a lecture series at the Ford Foundation, and he is a consultant for the MacArthur Foundation and Press Forward, a half-billion-dollar philanthropic effort to help maintain and restore local news.
He is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Mr. Blow is the author of New York Times bestselling books “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” and “The Devil You Know.” “Fire…” has been developed into an opera and will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera latter this year, the first opera by a black composer in the history of that institution. “The Devil…” has been developed into a feature-length documentary that will air on HBO.
In 2016, Mr. Blow was a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale where he taught a seminar on media and politics, tracking the presidential race in real time.
Mr. Blow served as the art director of National Geographic Magazine in 2006, and before coming to The Times, he worked at The Detroit News.
Mr. Blow graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications, and he holds honorary doctorates from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and the Metropolitan College of New York. He lives in Atlanta and has three adult children.