Inspiring Women Crystal McCrary talks about her
latest labor of love, a coffee-table tome celebrating women of color who set the bar high for the whole world. Interview by Janet Allon Photos by Lauri Lyons
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all, gorgeous, gracious and smart, Crystal McCrary always has several balls in the air. She trained as a lawyer then practiced entertainment law long enough to figure out that she was more interested in entertainment than law. Since then, she has produced television documentaries, written novels, and is working on her first feature length documentary, Little Ballers, which explores the impact of sports on urban youth as a pipeline to opportunity. This month, her non-fiction coffee-table book celebrating remarkable and accomplished African-American women like Michelle Obama and Gayle King, plus many more, Inspiration: Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World, is being published by Abrams. A star-studded party at the International Center for Photography will launch it. We sat down to talk about her latest project and the women she met and profiled.