 | Clowns and Rats Scare Me Cary Clack writes on local and national news, events, and social issues. Born in San Antonio, he is a graduate of St. Gerard High School and St. Mary's University (B.A. in political science, 1985). In the summer of 1984 he was a Scholar-Intern at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and he wrote CNN commentaries for Coretta Scott King. From 1989 to 1995 he was a trainer in nonviolence at King Center workshops for high school and college students. In 1986 Clack began working as a substitute teacher in the San Antonio Independent School District and writing columns for the San Antonio Snap and the San Antonio Informer . In June 1994 Clack began writing a biweekly column for the San Antonio Express-News and became a full-time staffer one year later as a general assignments reporter and weekly columnist. Since then he has written features for the Express-News and has won the Dallas Press Club's Katie Award for Best General Column. In 1998 he became the first African American on the Express-News Editorial Board and was named one of the San Antonio Business Journal 's 40 Under 40: Rising Stars of San Antonio. In July 2000 Clack became a metro columnist at the Express-News --the city's first black metro columnist. |
