JoNina Abron-Ervin Biography
JoNina Marie Abron-Ervin is an American journalist and activist. While in university, she worked for many newspapers, including The Cincinnati Herald and The Chicago Defender.
JoNina Abron-Ervin Age
Ervin was born in 1948, in Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America. She is 76 years old as of 2023.
JoNina Abron-Ervin Family- Education
Abron was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and is the daughter of a United Methodist minister. She studied at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. Abron graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a master’s degree in communication.
JoNina Abron-Ervin Husband
She is happily married to her husband Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin.
JoNina Abron-Ervin Career
She attended Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, where she claimed to have received a discount “for being a preacher’s kid”. By the time she started university in the late 1960s, the United States was undergoing a broad countercultural movement, with the rise of the black power movement and opposition to the US engagement in the Vietnam War. Abron expressed her own feelings of radicalization following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In 1968, Abron traveled to Rhodesia with other Baker students and teachers. She worked at a black-owned newspaper, which was heavily censored by the white minority administration. She characterized it as a “transforming experience” that expanded her knowledge of journalism.
She then worked for The Cincinnati Herald before moving to Chicago, where she was a reporter for The Chicago Defender and a public relations officer at Malcolm X College. Abron graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a master’s degree in communication. That same year, she joined the Black Panther Party’s Detroit chapter and later worked at the party’s headquarters in Oakland, California, where she published their newspaper, The Black Panther. She was actively involved in the establishment of the party’s “survival programs, which included provisions for free breakfast for children, free buses for jail visitors, and a free education program. She was active in the party until its demise.
Abron withdrew from teaching in 2003, but continues to create books and participate in anti-racist activity. She went to Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, and became involved in community organizing in their neighborhood near Fisk University. Following the Ferguson upheaval, Abron and Ervin relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, where they founded the Ida B. Wells Coalition Against Racism and Police Brutality. Although she did not join in the George Floyd protests due to her advanced age and the threat of the COVID-19 epidemic, she advised younger activists involved in the protest movement.
JoNina Abron-Ervin Net Worth
Abron has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.
