Cookie Lommel (born 1970) is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.

Early life

Cookie Lommel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She began her career in the entertainment industry in 1981. Early on she worked as a journalist for '' Cashbox'' magazine and '' Radio & Records'' magazine. She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at

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and as entertainment editor at ''

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''.

Activism

In 2003, she was named the executive director of the

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's Western region. Prior to this, in 1992 Lommel founded Operation Unity, a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.

Author

Cookie Lommel authored the 2001 book ''The History of Rap Music'', and ''Black Filmmakers'' in 2002. She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons, Arnold Schwarzenegger,

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, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.,

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, Robert Church, Madame C.J. Walker, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Mary Church Terrell.

Personal life

She was married to actor and film director

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between 1988 and his death in 2017.

References

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