![]() ![]() His column was picked up for syndication by the Knight Ridder News Service, and appeared in about 250 newspapers. ![]() Then, in 1994, Pitts was promoted to columnist at the Miami Herald, where he authored a column on race, politics and culture. in 1989, and then by the Miami Herald in 1991, where he served as a music critic. ![]() Pitts wrote scripts for several radio documentaries in the late 1980s, including King: From Atlanta to the Mountaintop, Who We Are, and Young Black Men: A Lost Generation. In 1980, he was hired as a writer for KFWB radio in Los Angeles, and, from 1983 to 1986, he worked for a program called Radioscope. From 1976 until 1980, Pitts worked for Soul magazine as writer and editor. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Pitts worked as a freelance journalist, writing for publications ranging from Musician to Reader's Digest. ![]() A successful student, Pitts skipped several grades and entered the University of Southern California at age fifteen, where he graduated with his B.A. He grew up in the impoverished South Central section of Los Angeles, California. was born on Octoin Orange, California to Leonard Garvey and Agnes Rowan Pitts. Journalist and author Leonard Garvey Pitts, Jr. ![]()
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