Rick Bowers is an award-winning author and journalist specializing in the quest for social justice and equal rights. He has also appeared on a wide range of media outlets, including PBS, NPR, CBS, the History Channel and Discovery Network. This December, Rick will make his debut as a fiction writer with the release of the legal thriller Innocence on Trial. In the book an idealistic young attorney seeks to exonerate a man she believes was wrongfully imprisoned for murder. The question is: why is she the one being stalked.
Bowers has authored two non-fiction books, penned an award winning PBS documentary and is working on related film projects in LA. Bowers’ book Spies of Mississippi (National Geographic, 2010) exposed the secret, state-run spy network dedicated to preserving segregation in 1950’s and ‘60s. Spies of Mississippi transported readers into a world of infiltrators and informants working to undercut civil rights organizations in the deep South at the hight of the movement. The state spies framed civil rights leaders, jailed activists, threatened sympathizers and funded white supremacist organizations with tax dollars. Working with film maker Dawn Porter, Bowers also penned the PBS/Independent Lens documentary version of Spies of Mississippi, which won numerous awards for its hard hitting treatment of the topic. Bowers’ book Superman vs. the Ku Klux Klan (National Geographic 2012) revealed how the Man of Steel exposed the men of hate to a generation of children. The book details how the producers of the Adventures of Superman radio serial pitted the iconic superhero against a thinly veiled version of the KKK to five million children radio listeners in 1946, winning widespread praise from civic leaders and the press and humiliating the actual Klan. Superman vs. the KKK is now in development as a feature film by Lotus Entertainment and Paperchase Films in L.A.
