Lonnae O'Neal Parker

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» Reporter | Lonnae O'Neal Parker is a reporter on the Metropolitan staff who has been working with the investigative unit this year on its D.C. schools project. Lonnae previously worked nine years for The Post's Style section, writing primarily about popular culture and race.

In 2000, she was a winner of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism award for distinguished work in the coverage of race and ethnicity in America. That same year, her feature "White Girl" was made the subject of a special broadcast of ABC's "Nightline." Lonnae was a contributor to the Post's award-winning 2006 “Being a Black Man” series which has been published as a book. She is the author of I'm Every Woman, Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood and Work.

Lonnae holds a degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University; she attended graduate school at Howard University, where she studied sociology.

Articles by Lonnae O'Neal Parker

Queen for a Day (August 16, 2009)

Same-Sex Couples Make Themselves at Home in Welcoming Prince George's Suburbs (June 29, 2009)

A Detox Diet? I'll Drink to That! (August 26, 2008)

Marathon Men (August 17, 2008)

Long Live The Queens (August 10, 2008)

A Century of Sisterhood (July 14, 2008)

Streets of the Dead (March 16, 2008)

Black Readers Are Jolted by a Chain's Demise (January 24, 2008)

Lessons in Reality (December 23, 2007)

For Jonathan Lewis, It's Fourth and Goal (November 12, 2007)

Bilingual Summit Stresses Parental Inclusion (October 7, 2007)