American Karma examines American history, politics, and culture to understand how we got to this place.

American Karma is published by Frank Housh, a former civil rights attorney, law professor, and legal columnist with thirty years of experience in the legal system.

Frank also publishes Media Room, American Karma’s sister site dedicated to the arts. Paid subscribers to American Karma get full access to Media Room.

Author Biography

A native of Kansas City, Frank began college studying classical guitar performance (UMKC Conservatory of Music) and finished with a philosophy degree from the University of Kansas. He moved to Buffalo in 1990 and earned his law degree from SUNY Buffalo School of Law in 1993.

While in law school, Frank was selected for The Buffalo Law Review and a Ford Fellowship at the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva. He also served a clerkship at the Texas Resource Center representing death row inmates in Texas. He co-wrote the initial brief in Johnson v. Texas, (1993), argued in the October 1992 Term of the United States Supreme Court.

Frank was a trial and appellate lawyer for thirty years, handling cases as an Assistant District Attorney and corporate litigator before he opened his own civil rights practice in 2010. Frank closed his law practice in 2023 and began writing full-time.

Housh was an adjunct law professor, National Book Review Editor and Chair of the Buffalo Chapter of the American Constitution Society, and a regular columnist for the Harvard Law and Policy Review. Arts writing was an avocation, and he published book and music reviews in local journals for two decades.

He is a long-time advocate for public libraries and a Past Chairman of the Buffalo and Erie County Library System.

Frank was a founder and former Managing Editor of The Buffalo Hive, a not-for-profit, online newspaper dedicated to arts and cultural journalism. He is a member of the Author’s Guild and the National Book Critics Circle.

He can be reached at mediaroom@substack.com.