William Matthew Ruberry

William Matthew Ruberry (Col ’76) has published Harmony in Black and White, released in October by Doggy Dog World Publishing. Ruberry was a reporter for the Greenville (S.C.) News, then an award-winning reporter and editor for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. This is his first novel.

The book is set in Richmond and Charlottesville. Here is the description:

Jack Sullivan is a rookie reporter at the Messenger newspaper in Richmond, Virginia. When he’s assigned to the local police beat, he never expects to uncover a network of crime amid the systemic racism enshrined in the city’s Confederate history.

As the young journalist pulls at the threads of a story that spans from a record high in city homicides to interstate arms running, he is forced to confront the prejudices that color his young life and career.

Inspired by the author’s own reporting in the wake of the march by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the murder of George Floyd, Harmony in Black and White is an unflinching newsroom drama and an examination of the impact of race and implicit biases on our media, law enforcement, and the systems that govern them.