Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults [1] and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Jan 19, 2018 · Julius Lester, a captivating and often polarizing American writer whose odyssey through a labyrinth of religious and ethnic identities caused him to be labeled a militant black separatist and a...

Jan 27, 2018 · Scholar and civil rights activist Julius Lester was born January 27, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of a Methodist minister. Lester spent much of his childhood in Missouri, where in the 1940s and 1950s he dealt with southern attitudes about race and segregation before and during the Civil Rights movement.

Jan 18, 2018 · (JTA) — Julius Lester, an African-American singer, scholar and activist whose conversion to Judaism in 1982 came as a shock to those who only remembered his role in a bitter, racially...

May 21, 2018 · Julius Lester has distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician, photographer, festival promoter, radio and talk show host, professor, poet, and novelist. But he is perhaps best known for his award-winning fiction for young adults, a body of work that directly addresses the black American experience during and after slavery.

Jan 22, 2018 · Lester wrote, “I know he is not an anti-Semite, but his remarks in class were anti-Semitic, and he does not realize it.” At the time, Lester was teaching in U Mass’s Afro-American Studies ...

Jan 19, 2018 · BELCHERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — An author, musician, civil rights activist and professor who made a late-life conversion to Judaism, has died. Julius Lester was 78. Lester’s daughter, Lian Amaris, posted on her father’s Facebook page that he “passed peacefully, surrounded by family” on Thursday.

Jan 19, 2018 · Julius Lester, a professor emeritus of Judaic and Near Eastern studies who was nationally renowned as author, civil rights activist, musician and photographer, died Jan. 18 at age 78. Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1939, the son of a minister.

Jan 19, 2018 · Julius Lester, an author, musician, civil rights activist and university professor who made a late-life conversion to Judaism, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 78.

Julius Lester explored his many talents in a vivid and multifaceted life. He was a musician, radio host, civil rights activist, university professor, writer of over 40 books, photographer, and a spiritual seeker.