{"id":854,"date":"2026-03-20T03:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/?page_id=854"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:12:27","slug":"dr-noel-s-anderson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/dr-noel-s-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Noel S. Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section alignfull alignfull getwid-section-content-custom-width\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__wrapper getwid-padding-left-medium getwid-padding-right-medium\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:1140px\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background-holder\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__background\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__foreground\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__content\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-section__inner-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Noel S. Anderson<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-heading__content\">He\/Him<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Writer and Clinical Professor, NYU\u2019s Steinhardt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel S. Anderson, PhD, a Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at NYU\u2019s Steinhardt. Noel is also a fiction writer, \u201cN.S. Anderson\u201d. His novella, <em>By Nightfall<\/em>, is set in Paris in 1961. It follows Solomon Painter, a young man from an all-Black town in St. Louis known as \u201cthe Ville,\u201d who dreams of writing in Paris like James Baldwin and Richard Wright before him. Once in Paris, Solomon experiences the beauty and freedom he envisioned\u2014and falls in love. But as he witnesses the racism and discrimination endured by North Africans amid the Algerian War, he abandons his novel and becomes a pamphleteer for the cause of liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-advanced-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/presenters\/\" style=\"color:#000000\">BACK<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackportraitures.info\/bp-la\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/01\/aKXlxOxBUKwCzyiQ1pdaOYtriRj45RcA7sK9LNUJ5B0-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Noel S. 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