Episode Synopsis "Do the Right Thing with Karen Grigsby Bates: Overcoming Human Nature"

Before coming to NPR, Bates was a news reporter for Peoplemagazine. She was a contributing columnist to the Op Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times for ten years. Her work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Essence and Vogue. And she’s been a guest on several news shows such as ABC’s Nightline and the CBS Evening News. In her non-NPR life, Bates is the author of Plain Brown Wrapper and Chosen People, mysteries featuring reporter-sleuth Alex Powell. She is co-author, with Karen E. Hudson, of Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times, a best-selling etiquette book now in its second edition. Her work also appears in several writers’ anthologies.

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