Media
Radio Interviews
“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
“Marion Orr joins Tavis Smiley,” Tavis Smiley (September 2025)
Print Features
“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
“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.