Publications
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson.
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Winner of the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians
“What Civil Rights History Can Teach Kavanaugh’s Critics”
NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 13, 2018.
“You Can’t Tell U.S. History Without Black History”
The Washington Post, September 25, 2016, B1.
Peer-reviewed publications
“The Historiography of the Black South: From Reconstruction to Jim Crow,” in Reinterpreting Southern Histories, eds. Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 245 - 273.
“Unabated Protest: African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson,” We The People: The United States and the Question of Rights, American Studies – A Monograph Series Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, forthcoming Winter 2019.
Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson. John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
· Winner of the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians
“International Civil Rights Center and Museum,” Journal of American History, Vol. 97, No. 3 December 2010, 752-756.
“Right to Ride: African American Citizenship and Protest in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson,” African American Review-Special Issue-Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Volume 41, Number 2, Summer 2007, 347-356.
“Plessy v. Ferguson and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of Separate, But Equal.” From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy, Peter F. Lau, ed., Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
Selected public-facing publications
“Biden has black voters' support over Sanders, and it's not because they're moderates,” NBC News, March 5, 2020.
“Why Mike Bloomberg could win black voters' support as Joe Biden's candidacy falters” NBC News, February 14, 2020.
“What Civil Rights History Can Teach Kavanaugh’s Critics,” New York Times, October 13, 2018.
“If enslaved African Americans weren’t mentally strong there wouldn’t even be a Kanye West,” The Washington Post, May 3, 2018.
“You Can’t Tell U.S. History Without Black History,” The Washington Post, September 25, 2016, B1.
“Whatever Rachel Dolezal is doing, let’s not call it ‘passing’,” The Washington Post, June 16, 2015.
“The History Behind that ‘Angry Black Woman’ Riff the NY Times Tossed Around,”
TheRoot.com, September 25, 2014.
“Like Dred Scott, Michael Brown was Denied his Right to Live-and to Live as an American,”
TheRoot.com, August 14, 2014.
“Shotgun Behind the Door: How Armed Black Southerners Helped Fight for Civil Rights,”
TheRoot.com, June 5, 2014.
“’The Case for Reparations’ Reignited an Important and Longstanding Debate,”
TheRoot.com, May 24, 2014.
“Remembering Pauli Murray—a Heroine who fought Jane Crow,”
TheGrio.com, March 11, 2014.
“A Brief History of Blackface,” TheGrio.com, October 30, 2013.
“Trayvon Martin, Emmett Till, and the Shadow of Jim Crow Justice,” TheGrio.com, July 17, 2013.
“The Price of ‘Django,” Ebony.com, January 14, 2013.