Datcher has also curated and/or performed programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others.

He's also a frequent college campus lecturer. Datcher is the author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller, RAISING FENCES: A Black Man's Love Story (Penguin Putnam/Riverhead)-A Today Show Book Club selection. The film rights have been optioned by actor Will Smith's Overbook Productions. Datcher is currently at work on the screenplay adaptation. As a journalist he has written for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Vibe, Ladies Home Journal, The Source, among others. He is a frequent news commentator on BBC Radio in the U.K. and has appeared on both news shows Nightline and Dateline as an analyst.

His essays and poetry are widely anthologized, including BUM RUSH THE PAGE (Crown Books), TESTIMONY (Beacon Press), SOULFIRES (Penguin), BODY & SOUL (Crown), ANOTHER CITY (City Lights Books), CATCH THE FIRE (Riverhead), ROLL CALL (Third World Press), among others. Datcher is the co-editor of TOUGH LOVE: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur (Alexander).

He teaches English Literature at West Los Angles College and UCLA Extension. Datcher is the director of literary programs at the World Stage Writer's Workshop in Leimert Park.

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