I'm a UK-based writer and historian. I'm primarily a historian of the modern United States, with a particular focus on the Black Press and histories of Black Chicago. More broadly, I'm interested in race, rights and media representation in the United States and across the Black diaspora.

​I am the author of Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America, which was published in 2020 by the University of Illinois Press. It was named as one of the year's best Black history books by Black Perspectives, and received an honorable mention in the Research Society for American Periodicals' annual Book Prize.

My next book, A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, will be published by the University of Illinois Press in 2022.

I am currently working on two manuscripts; Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr., which will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2022, and The Modern Black Press in the United States , which will be published by Edinbrugh University Press in 2024.

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