Professor of African American Literature Dean of the Graduate School Howard University

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil

Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies, Associate Professor of History, Rhodes College

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Riverside

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Professor and Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Education, Duke University

President, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation

Writer/Scholar

President, Wellesley College

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Director , Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

CEO, PEN America

President & CEO, The Boston Foundation

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free: Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Chester B. Himes: A Biography

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke