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Brent Staples
Brent Staples (born 1951 in Chester, Pennsylvania) is an author and editorial writer for the ''New York Times''. His books include ''An American Love Story'' and ''Parallel Time: Growing up In Black and White'', which won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award. Specializing in politics and cultural issues, Staples often writes on controversies and issues, including race (his 1986 essay in ''Ms. Magazine'' "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space" is deemed canonical) and the state of the American school system. In 2008 he was appointed to the newspaper's editorial board.
He was a chapter of Widener University (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D). His essay "How Hip Hop Lost Its Way and Betrayed Its Fans" was included in ''Read, Reason, and Write'' book, edited by Dorothy U. Seyler. His memoir ''Parallel Time'' was a finalist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
==Early years and education==
Before Staples was born, his parent moved from rural Virginia to Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of the Great Migration of blacks to industrial cities in the North and Midwest. Chester was then a prosperous small city with a huge shipbuilding industry. The oldest son of nine children, Staples was born in 1951. His family had no money for tuition, his grades were average, and he had taken only a few high-level academic courses in high school, so the expectation was that he would go straight to work. However, he was admitted to Widener University, where he graduated in 1973. Staples enrolled at the University of Chicago where he earned a master's degree in Psychology in 1976, and in 1982 received a PhD in the same field.
Years later, his younger brother, a cocaine dealer, was murdered by one of his clients, and .
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