[1] In 2013, he co-authored with Henry Louis Gates Jr the book based on the PBS television series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.
Born on February 25, 1952, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone,[2] Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 1974.
[2] In 2013, Yacovone co-authored The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross[3] with Henry Louis Gates Jr, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr.[4] The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times.
[9] Yacovone has written for The Chronicle of Higher Education on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.
[10] In 2022, Yacovone's book, Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of our National Identity, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.