Swarns, Rachel L.

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Name (Latin)
Swarns, Rachel L.
Date of birth
1967
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Journalism
Occupation
Authors
Journalists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 250979939
Wikidata: Q47544208
Library of congress: no2012080601
Sources of Information
  • Her American tapestry, c2012 :t.p. (Rachel L. Swarns) jkt. flap (reporter for New York Times; lives in Washington, D.C.)
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Wikipedia description:

Rachel L. Swarns (born 1967) is an American author, news correspondent and investigative reporter. Since 1995 at The New York Times, Swarns has been a reporter, news correspondent, and since 2017 a faculty member in journalism at New York University. Swarns has been a foreign correspondent for the Times while reporting from Cuba, Russia and southern Africa (where she was the Johannesburg bureau chief). Swarns wrote American Tapestry (2012) about the history of Michelle Obama's ancestors, and co-authored the book Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives. In 2023, she published The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.

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