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Donovan Xavier Ramsey (born 1987) is an American journalist, author and cultural critic. Ramsey’s work focuses primarily on racial identity, racism politics and patterns of power in the United States.

Early life
Ramsey was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He attended public schools including Pilgrim Elementary School and the Columbus Africentric School before attending and graduating from Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, a magnet alternative school built around an intensive academic and arts curriculum. At Fort Hayes, Ramsey studied painting, commercial art and art history. He went on to attend and graduate from Morehouse College, where he studied psychology and was managing editor of the college's Maroon Tiger student newspaper. He completed his graduate studies at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he specialized in magazine journalism.

Career
Ramsey has been a staff editor at Complex and NewsOne, and a staff writer at theGrio. He has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Ebony, Jet, GQ, Essence, Vice and other publications. He was an Emerging Voices Fellow at Demos, a New York City-based public policy organization focusing on social, economic and political equity issues. In 2018, the The Open Society Foundations named him a Soros Justice Fellow. Additionally, Ramsey has appeared on MSNBC, ESPN, Al Jazeera, and a number of other television and radio programs.

In 2023, Ramsey will publish When Crack Was King, a book of narrative nonfiction exploring the crack epidemic of the late 1980s and early 1990s for the One World imprint of Random House.

Personal life
Ramsey lives in Los Angeles, California.