<a href="http://www.amyalexanderink.com/">Amy Alexander</a>, a Nieman affiliate in 1996, is author of several books, including "<a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1402">Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans</a>," coauthored with Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint. "<a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2209">Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention</a>" published in October 2011 by Beacon Press.