Mike Kelly is a columnist for The Record, a newspaper serving Bergen County, New Jersey.
In 1975, Kelly obtained his degree from Syracuse University with a double major in American studies and Journalism.
His work focuses on projects in Northern Ireland, Africa, the Middle East, and Malaysia.
[1] He is the author of Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town, a book about the 1990 shooting in Teaneck, New Jersey of Phillip Pannell, an African-American teenager, by Gary Spath, a white Teaneck police officer.
[3] In 2014 Kelly published The Bus on Jaffa Road about terrorism and the search for justice after terrorist attacks.