Every community is rich with untold stories. The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio by Vincent T. Davis takes readers through San Antonio’s neighborhoods to trace the cultural and human legacy of a city built on the margins. San Antonio is rich with untold stories of forgotten communities. Discover something new about the city at this session.
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A 22-year Air Force veteran, Vincent T. Davis started at the San Antonio Express-News in 1999 as a part-time city desk editorial assistant, working nights and weekends while he attended San Antonio College and worked on the staff of the campus newspaper. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.
Vincent joins the Book Festival to discuss his book, The Front Porch: Stories from the Soul of San Antonio.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Cary Clack is a graduate of St. Gerard High School, and a graduate of St. Mary’s University (1985) with a B.A. in Political Science.
In the summer of 1984, Cary was a Scholar-Intern at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change where he studied nonviolence and wrote CNN commentaries for Coretta Scott King. From 1989 to 1995 Cary returned to Atlanta to teach nonviolence workshops to high school and college students.
In 1994, Cary was given a bi-weekly column by the San Antonio Express-News and in 1995 was hired full-time as a reporter and columnist. In 1998, he became the first Black Editorial Board for the Express-News (and any San Antonio daily). Also in 1998, he became the first Black metro columnist in the paper and city’s history.
Cary is the editor of the first anthology of Black Texas writers, “Deep in the Soul of Texas,” which will be published by Texas A&M University Press as part of the Wittliff Collections’ Book Series later this year.
