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George Davis
George Davis (November 29, 1939) is an African American novelist, journalist, educator, and creator of interactive, internet content. Prior to his career as a creator of interactive, Internet content, his major books were Coming Home (Random House 1972), Love, Black Love (Doubleday 1972) and Black Life in Corporate America (with Glegg Watson, Doubleday 1982) [1]

Davis was a journalist with The Washington Post, New York Times, Essence Magazine and Black Enterprise Magazine. He is professor emeritus at Rutgers University and has taught at Colgate, Columbia, and Yale universities. As a captain in the United States Air Force, he flew 47 combat missions during the Vietnam War.

For 10 years at the Newark, NJ campus of Rutgers University, he ran the Spiritual Intelligence Action Research Project (SIARP), to research ways in which some of the truths being discovered in mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, and other advances in almost every scientific field parallel some of the things we’ve known for centuries through our spiritual and religious traditions: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism, Vajrayana, Zen, Taoism, Tantra, Shamanism, Kabbalah, Sufism (Islam), Spiritism and Christian mysticism. [2] [3}

Early Life
Davis was born in Shepherdstown, WV, to Rev. Clarence Davis and Winnie (Ross) Davis. He is descendent of Henry Davis, who escaped slavery in North Carolina in the 1850s. He grew up in a half dozen small towns in West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland, where his father was pastor of a series of mostly rural churches. With the coming of the Civil Rights Movement, Davis and his next older brother, Vernon, racially integrated Wheeling High School in Wheeling, West Virginia (1954), and later Davis, and several other African American students, integrated schools in Baltimore, Maryland (1955), which was then the largest racially segregated school system in the nation. [4]

Books
Coming Home, Random House, 1971. Love, Black Love, Doubleday, 1978. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream, Doubleday, 1982. (With Glegg Watson) Spiritual Intelligence (monogram) 2005 Soul Vibrations: Astrology for African Americans, Quill, 1996. (With Gilda Mathews) “Alex and the Search for God Within” Love Lessons: African Americans and Sex, Romance, and Marriage in the Nineties, William Morrow, 1998. Barack Obama America and the World, Here Books, 2011
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Major Reviews
Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 1997 Black Enterprise, June 1983, p. 27. New York Times Book Review, October 24, 1982, p. 12. Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1982. Library Journal, August, 1982, p. 1456. Publishers Weekly, June 18, 1982, p. 67; Newsweek, April 6, 1970. The New York Times Book Review, Jan 9, 1972 The Nation, March 6, 1972 Newsweek, April 6, 1970.

Selected Articles
“The Modern Melting Pot” Psychology Today, 2010 - 2012 “The Black Gamesman” Psychology Today, Aug 1982 "A Healing Hand in Harlem," in New York Times Magazine, Apr. 22, 1979, pp. 40 +. “All About Love” Essence, Feb 1977
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