David Montero

Background

About David Montero

My second book, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations, with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, was published by LegacyLit/Hachette Books in February 2024. It traces how white corporate directors and Wall Street magnates plowed the wealth they stole from the labor and life of enslaved Black people - the equivalent today of trillions of dollars - into modern industries and corporations that built America; how they did so utilizing many of Wall Street's biggest banks before, during and after the Civil War; and why corporate reparations and radical reparative justice are critically necessary. My previous book was KICKBACK: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network, which investigates the devastating impact of Western corporate bribery on the developing world. It was published 11/13/18 by Viking/Penguin. I'm an author, foreign correspondent and documentary film producer. For PBS FRONTLINE I wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated film "State of Emergency"(2008), as well as "A Death in Swat"(2009), and "The Lost Generation"(2010). My reporting for the FRONTLINE film "The Middle School Moment"(2012) also received an Emmy nomination. My writing has appeared in Time, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Harvard Business Review, The Globe & Mail, Le Monde Diplomatique and many others. I've received the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, the Investigative Reporting Fellowship at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, the International Reporting Project's Health Fellowship, and several grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism