Lee Hawkins

11/08/2026

So honored and excited to speak at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in this week, interviewed by esteemed journalist ! If you are an author or thinking about writing a book, I will give you all the information I can to help put you on the path to success! Thank you and please say hello if you see me! All the best, Lee

14/07/2026

Seatbelt violation

14/07/2026

I am excited to join USC's Center for Health Journalism in just about an hour 1 pm eastern (10 a.m. Pacific) for this webinar on reporting and researching history, genealogy, and covering the impact of all kinds of ancestral lineage and the past on the present. I will be giving tips and discussing my look back to 400 years of history for my book, I AM NOBODY'S SLAVE (HarperCollins, 2025). To attend you must RSVP (it's free) here, before the event:

https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/webinars/making-past-present-strategies-reporting-history

See you soon!

HAWK

07/07/2026

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06/07/2026

I’m honored to be the featured speaker for USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s free July 14 webinar, “Making the Past Present: Strategies for Reporting on History.”

RSVP here:
https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/webinars/making-past-present-strategies-reporting-history

My support for USC’s Center for Health Journalism and its mission runs deep. The Center has meant a great deal to me and my work. I received a fellowship from USC supporting my reporting on child well-being, and that support helped deepen the research that became part of my book, I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free.

In this webinar, I’ll be sharing the reporting tips, research strategies and hard-won lessons I used to bring buried history into the present. We’ll talk about archival research, genealogy, genetic testing, finding sources, getting reluctant people to talk, and how journalists and storytellers can use history not as background, but as the engine of powerful present-day reporting.

The webinar is free, but you do need to RSVP. I hope you’ll join us and share this with journalists, writers, students, researchers, historians, genealogists, educators and anyone interested in telling deeper stories about the past and why it still matters.

05/07/2026

Happy fourth!!

01/07/2026

Enjoyed this interview with Angela Yee!

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24/06/2026

Looking forward to joining USC’s Center for Health Journalism as the featured guest for a public webinar on reporting on history on JULY 14th.

We’ll talk about how to conduct archival research, use genetic testing to identify potential sources, follow leads, and turn those leads into hard-won interviews.

We’ll also get into one of the classic challenges of journalism: how to get reluctant sources to talk about difficult subjects when they finally answer the door.

The webinar is open to the public. You can sign up here:

Making the Past Present: Strategies for Reporting on History July 14, 2026, 10 - 11am PDT Register Unearthing the past requires a different set of research and reporting strategies. Journalist Lee Hawkins has spent years honing this craft, culminating in the publication last year of his book “I Am...

28/02/2026

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