Melvin Grier Author

Melvin Grier was a staff photographer at the Cincinnati Post for thirty-three years. Grier was named 1999 Ohio Photographer of the Year by the Queen City Chapter, the Society of Professional Journalists, and was inducted into its Greater Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was named the Taft Museum of Art Robert S. Duncanson Artist-in-Residence and inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Cincinnati Chapter Hall of Fame. Grier has also exhibited his photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, and Arts Consortium of Cincinnati. Grier, a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, lives in South Avondale with his wife Brenda. Molly Kavanaugh is a Cincinnati native and graduate of Ohio University’s College of Communication. She was a reporter at the Cincinnati Post for ten years and worked on many assignments with Melvin Grier. In 1990, she and reporter Randy Ludlow won the Queen City Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists Gerald White Memorial Award for a series of articles exposing favoritism in the Hamilton County Auditor’s office. She ended her newspaper career in Cleveland at The Plain Dealer.