About the Author

Sonsyrea Tate is the author of the popular memoirs, Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam (Simon and Schuster/Strebor Books, 2007); and Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam (Harper San Francisco, 1996, re-issued, University of Tennessee Press, 2004).

Tate has lectured on the subject of growing up Muslim in America and the history of African American Muslims at colleges and universities, including the University of Boston at Massachusetts, the University of Colorado, Howard University, George Washington University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and Morgan State University.

Tate works as a journalist and has published in the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Virginian Pilot, the Chicago Tribune, Essence magazine, and the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, The Muslim Journal.

She currently works as managing editor at The Washington Informer newspaper, a 41-year-old institution affiliated with Black Press USA.