Actor-singer Taye Diggs ’93 Returns to Campus for Coming Back Together Book Signing

Most people know Taye Diggs ’93 as an award-winning actor and singer, but when he participates in this week’s Coming Back Together reunion for African American and Latino alumni, he will do so as a best-selling author.

Diggs is the creator of “Mixed Me!” (2015) and “Chocolate Me!” (2011), children’s books that address issues of race and identity. On Saturday, Sept. 16, he will discuss and sign copies of both books from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium. That his longtime friend and former classmate Shane Evans ’93 illustrated them gives the event added significance.

“I never thought I would be a writer, but I used to just write random poems, and leave them lying around the dorm. Shane saw one, and, because he was an artist, would take some of my writing and put them to his art,” Diggs told Entertainment Weekly. “The first thing that he put on display was this poem I wrote called ‘Chocolate Me.’ In its original form, it was more for adults, so he put the poem to some really strong imagery and made a book.”

Read more about his book and signing at SU News.