Media
TV Interviews
“Sock It To You Crockett, Garlin The Great & The Controversial Charles C. Diggs,” Pulsebeat with Greg Dunmore (November 2025) Season 18, Episode 18, Story in the Public Square (November 2025) “Policy & Progress,” The Conversation with Al McFarlane (October 2025) “House of Diggs,” The Bronx Social Justice and Anti-Violence Forums (October 2025)
Radio Interviews
The Midday Breakroom, 96.1 FM WURD Radio (November 2025) Sunday Morning interview, The Mildred Gaddis Show, 105.9 KISS FM (November 2025) “The Metro: Why more people don’t know about Michigan’s first Black congressmember,” The Metro, WDET 101.9 FM (November 2025) “Dr. Marion Orr covers the rise and fall of Charles C. Diggs Jr. in the House of Diggs,” WWJ Newsradio 950 (October 2025) “Dr. Michael Lomax and Marion Orr join Tavis Smiley,” KBLA 1580’s Tavis Smiley Show (September 2025) “Marion E. Orr,” In Black America (September 2025)
Podcast Interviews
“Podcast #237 – Marion Orr,” Biographer’s International Organization (BIO) Podcast (December 2025) “Marion Orr – Department of Political Science, Brown University,” The Black Studies Podcast (December 2025) “Dr. Marion Orr on the Hidden Legacy of Charles C. Diggs Jr.,” Unsolicited Perspectives (November 2025) “Dr. Gerald Horne, Professor Marion Orr & Edwin Avent on The Carl Nelson Show,” The Carl Nelson Show (November 2025) “House of Diggs,” Academic Life (November 2025) “Marion Orr, House of Diggs,” New Books Network (October 2025) “Marion Orr joins Tavis Smiley,” Tavis Smiley (September 2025)
Print Features
“The Original Fly Guy: Marion Orr details activism of Black travel’s godfather,” Miami Herald (November 2025) “House of Diggs explores complex life, accomplishments,” Cranston Herald (November 2025) “First Biography of Consequential Congressman Rewrites History of Black Political Leadership,” The Buffalo Criterion (October 2025) “Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (September 2025) “Spotlight: House of Diggs by Marion Orr,” What Is That Book About (September 2025) “Celebrating Civil Rights Icons,” The New York Amsterdam News (September 2025) “Ogletree Forum Closes With Book Ban Discussion,” Vineyard Gazette (August 2025) “The best books about Black political leadership in the US,” Shepherd
Book Reviews
“House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr,” California Review of Books (November 2025) “House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman by Marion Orr,” The Providence Eye (November 2025) “Book Review: House of Diggs — The Tragic Arc of a Black Civil Rights Champion,” The Arts Fuse (October 2025) “House of Diggs Review: A Political Legacy Stained,” The Wall Street Journal (October 2025) “Marion Orr revives the legacy of Charles C. Diggs Jr. in House of Diggs,” a review by Vivica Dsouza, The Bay State Banner (September 2025) “#REVIEW: House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr., by Marion Orr,” Infinite Free Time (September 2025) “House of Diggs.” Campaign for the American Reader (July 2025)
Other Reviews
“Mr. Moral Authority.” A review of David Greenberg’s John Lewis: A Life, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (Winter, 2025). Review of Wilbur C. Rich, Black Mayors and School Politics in National Political Science Review, Vol.8 (2001), pp. 290-293. Review of Richard A. Keiser, Empowerment or Subordination?: African-American Leadership and the Struggle for Urban Political Power in Urban Affairs Review Vol.35 (January 2000), pp. 440-442. Review of Wilbur C. Rich, Black Mayors and School Politics in Urban Affairs Review Vol.33, No.1 (September 1997), pp. 146-148. Review of Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman, (eds.), Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 in Southeastern Political Review Vol.24, No.2 (June, 1996), pp. 388-390. Review of Charles Wesley Harris, Congress and the Governance of the Nation’s Capital: The Conflict of Federal and Local Interests in Political Science Quarterly Vol. 111, No.3 (Fall 1996), pp. 564-565.