Yvonne Latty is an American journalist, author, filmmaker and professor at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
She and her older sister, Margie, grew up in a tenement in New York City's South Harlem neighborhood, which was then overrun by drugs and poverty.
The daughter of a Jamaican father and Dominican mother, Latty spent a lot of time on her fire escape,[5] watching stories unfold on the streets below.
Her work has also been featured in USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, NPR, Fox News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press, and the Miami Herald.
Pavement Pieces has received two Excellence in Student Journalism Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for work on the LGBT community.
[16] In 2006, Latty wrote a USA Today criticizing the lack of African-American Marines in Clint Eastwood's films about Iwo Jima.
"[18][19] Her work attracted the attention of director Spike Lee, who asked her to speak on the subject over the summer in advance of his own World War II film, Miracle at St.