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ACADEMIC WRITING

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

ARTICLES & ESSAYS

WASHINGTON POST
Johnson Publishing Company and the Search for a White Audience
American Journalism, ​39, no. 3 (2022).

Getting on the Negro History Bandwagon:
​Selling Black History from World War II to the Dawn of Black Power
​ Journal of African American History 107, no. 3 (2022).

Hunt the Wizard! Race, Immigration, and David Duke’s 1978 Tour of Britain
Contemporary British History 35, no. 1. (2021), pp. 100-124.

His Light Still Shines: Corporate Advertisers and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Advertising & Society Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2021), online.

Digital Collection: 40 Years of MLK Adverts
​Advertising & Society Quarterly 22, no. 1 (2021).

Class, Culture, and Coming of Age in Alice Browning's Chicago Girl
African American Review 54, no. 1 (2021), pp. 259-280.

Roil Britannia: ​Al Sharpton, the British Press, and the 1991 Murder of Rolan Adams
Immigrants & Minorities 37, no. 3 (2020), pp. 184-210.

Ben Burns and the Boundaries of Black Print in Chicago, 1942-1954
Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (2019), pp. 703-724.

Black Power Print
Radical Americas 3, no. 1 (2018), online.

A Hero to be Remembered: Ebony Magazine, Critical Memory and the ‘Real Meaning’ of the King Holiday
Journal of American Studies 52, no. 2 (2018), pp. 503-527.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.: A Life in Popular Black History
The Black Scholar 47, no. 4 (2017), pp. 3-17.

Black Power Across Borders
Reviews in American History 45, no. 4 (2017), pp. 685-693.

I See Enough Queers Walking the Streets in This City: ​Homosexuality and Sexual Geographies in Black Consumer Magazines during the 1970s
Souls 18, no. 2 (2016), pp. 283-301.

Power is 100 Years Old: Lerone Bennett, Jr., Ebony Magazine and the Roots of Black Power
The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 9, no. 2 (2016), pp. 165-188.

Rethinking Representations of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: ​A Case Study of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Journal of International Women’s Studies 14, no. 1 (2013), pp. 109-123.

SPECIAL ISSUES

Race, Immigration and the British Press since 1945
Immigrants & Minorities 38, no.3 (2020, with Simon Peplow).

Radical American Periodicals
Radical Americas 3, no.1 (2018, with Victoria Bazin and Sue Currell).

ROUNDTABLES & INTERVIEWS

​Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards: The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust, Community Activism, and Public History Programming
History 107 (2022), pp. 270-286.

Newsworthy to Whom?
A Conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry
Immigrants & Minorities 38, no.3 (2020), pp. 238-244

American Studies in Precarious Times
Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (2019), pp. 819-836.

Closer to the Ground:
A Conversation with Ann Pancake
Southern Spaces, May 30, 2017

​We Were All Pioneers:
A Discussion with Simeon Booker
Southern Quarterly 52, no. 1 (2014), pp. 215-223.
Preserving Black Press Buildings is Crucial to Urban Communities
Washington Post, June 10, 2022.

The Missing Element in the Battle over Biden's Agenda
Washington Post, October 22, 2021.

Black Santas Have a Long and Contested History in the US
Washington Post, December 23, 2020.

African American Newspapers are a Vital Source of Public Health Information
Washington Post, September 9, 2020.

SLATE

​How Budweiser Pioneered the Year-Round Use of Black History to Sell Stuff
Slate, March 17, 2022.

NIEMAN REPORTS

Meet the Buildings that Housed Chicago's Black Press.
Nieman Reports, January 24, 2022.

THE AMERICAN HISTORIAN

Fifty Years Forward
​​American Historian, November 2014.

BLACK PERSPECTIVES

Documenting Environmental Racism
Black Perspectives, August 26, 2022.

Chicago's Murals and Block Clubs
Black Perspectives, April 5, 2022.

​Highways, High-Rises and Food Deserts
​Black Perspectives, January 19, 2022.

​Race, Environmental Justice, and DOCUMERICA at 50.
Black Perspectives, November 10, 2021.

The Tears of Carl Lewis.
Black Perspectives, September 20, 2021.

​Protest, Property, and the Black Press
Black Perspectives, July 27, 2021.

​British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism
Black Perspectives, May 6, 2021.

Naming and Self-Identification in the Black Community
Black Perspectives, March 29, 2021.

The Radical and Transnational Roots of BHM in Britain
Black Perspectives, October 7, 2020.

Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr's Forced into Glory
Black Perspectives, September 10, 2020

The 1619 Project and the "Anti-Lincoln Tradition"
Black Perspectives, August 11, 2020.

Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
Black Perspectives, February 3, 2020

Paul Boutelle's 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign
Black Perspectives, November 18, 2019.

A Black Woman Communist Candidate
Black Perspectives, September 24, 2019.

Dick Gregory's 1968 Presidential Campaign
Black Perspectives, July 8, 2019.

African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination
Black Perspectives, April 30, 2019​.
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The Significance of Private Collectors in African American History
Black Perspectives, February 20, 2019.

Queering the Black Press: Remembering BLK Magazine
Black Perspectives, January 29, 2019.
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Corporate Influence and the Legacy of Black Power
Black Perspectives, November 6, 2018.

Spike Lee, Nike, and Corporate Activism
Black Perspectives, October 2, 2018.

History is Knowledge, Identity, and Power: Lerone Bennett Jr., 1928-2018
Black Perspectives, February 15, 2018.

BOOK CHAPTERS

From Frontier to Heartland: The Black Press and the Middle West.
In Jon K. Lauck ed. Hearing the Heartland: Essays on the Plight and Promise of the New Midwestern History (University of Illinois Press, 2024).

A Labor of Love: ​John H. White, Documerica, and Working-Class Black Chicago During the 1970s
In Simon Balto, Erik Gellman and Andrea Jackson ed. New Histories of Black Chicago (Illinois, 2023).

Rodney King and the Nation’s Afterlives
In Douglas Field, Ian Scott and Jenny Barrett ed. Art, Culture & Ethics in Black and White: Over 100 Years of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (Manchester, 2022).

Get Out! (of the White House): Horror Parody and Social Commentary in the Age of Trump
In Victoria McCollum ed. Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear (Routledge, 2019).

The Books You’ve Waited For: Ebony Magazine, the Johnson Book Division, and Black History in Print.
In Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne ed. Against A Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (Wisconsin, 2019).

No Place Like Home: Chicago's Black Metropolis and the Johnson Publishing Offices, 1942-1975.
In DaMaris B. Hill ed. The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow (Lexington, 2016).

A Double-Edged Sword: Ebony Magazine and the 2008 Obama Campaign.
In Josephine Metcalf and Carina Spaulding ed. African American Culture and Society after Rodney King (Ashgate, 2015).

BOOK REVIEWS

I have reviewed books for the following academic publications:

American Journalism
American Studies
Callaloo
Ethnicity & Race in a Changing World
Immigrants & Minorities
Journal of American Culture
Journal of American Studies
Journal of British Studies
Journal of Magazine Media
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Sport History
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
New York History: A Quarterly Journal
Social History