Awards and Honors

• 1986 – National Headliner Award, National Headliners Club for outstanding feature writing. 
• 1988 – Fellow of Alicia Patterson Foundation
• 1990 – New England Associated Press Award
• 1990 – International Reporting Award, National Association of Black Journalists
• 1991 – Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in featuring writing
• 1993 – Sunday Magazine Editors Association Award for profile writing
• 1993 – Doctor of Humane Letters from Ohio Dominican College
• 1998 – Ohioana Book Award for nonfiction for The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story