Jabari Asim

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Jabari Asim

The former deputy editor of Washington Post's Book World. He is now the editor of the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis. He authored, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, in 2007, and was interviewed on Book TV on 5 May 2007. He is also the author of a book on erotica, "Brown Sugar," as well as numerous books for children, among them, "Daddy Goes to Work." Before coming to the Washington Post, he was arts editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He lives in Baltimore, MD, with his wife and five children.