Hmm, did I hear that right? Your daddy was your mama?

Hmm, did I hear that right? Your daddy was your mama?

Clem Richardson, a former New York Daily News columnist, is an award-winning journalist, a novelist, lecturer, panelist and consultant. Over the course of more than three decades in journalism, the Duke University graduate also worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Miami Herald and New York Newsday. Richardson taught journalism in South Africa on an International Center for Journalists fellowship and lectured in Nigeria on journalism ethics for the National Democratic Institute. Richardson has written pieces for German GEO magazine, Ford Foundation, Heart & Soul magazine and BET Magazine, among others. An article he wrote for German GEO on Rudolph Giuliani’s New York was later read at an annual writing festival in Cologne, Germany.

Richardson is a two-time winner of the New York City Press Club's Father Mychal Judge "Heart of of New York" Award, and the recipient of the New York Association of Black Journalists' 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award and the Culvert Chronicles USA 2015 "Community Leadership Media" Award, among other commendations.

Richardson appeared in the films “The Insider” and “My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures,” and the documentary “Death of Two Sons—the story of Amadou Diallo and Jesse Thyne.”

He is a practicing 3rd Dan Aikidoist.

Clem Richardson's first work of fiction, "Gowanus, A Love Story," set in Brooklyn, is available on Amazon.