Earnest McBride, currently the Contributing Editor for the Jackson Advocate, was born November 1, 1941, in Vicksburg, MS. From an early age, he worked alongside his father, Ernest Walker, Sr., who was the owner of the Model Print Shop in Vicksburg between the years 1924 and 1971.
He attended Tougaloo College for one year before moving to Los Angeles, CA to attend Los Angeles City College and then Cal State University Los Angeles, where he graduated with a BA in Journalism in June 1968. McBride completed his MA in Language Studies from San Francisco State University and began PhD studies in Linguistics and Higher Education at University of Southern California, 1971-1981.
He speaks fluent French and is moderately fluent in Spanish, Chinese and German. He also mastered the Amharic-Tigray (Ethiopian) writing system.
