Documenting Environmental Racism
There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first
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Civil Rights Movement
James Farmer and the Roots of a Black Activist-Intellectual
James Farmer conceptualized and developed a nonviolent direct-action philosophy that could be applied in the United States. He drew inspiration from
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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life
Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such
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Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late
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The Legacy of the Gary Convention
The long shadow of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, continues to overwhelm Black political and intellectual
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