I teach political science in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and I am also the Director of the Du Bois Papers Collection. The Du Bois Papers are housed at the University of Massachusetts library, which is named in honor of this prominent African American intellectual and Massachusetts native. A founding member of the independent black think tank, the Institute of the Black World, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, I was a consultant to both series of the prize-winning documentary on the civil rights movement, "Eyes on the Prize," and the senior consultant on the PBS documentary, "Malcolm X: Make It Plain." I also wrote the companion book. Most recently, I was a consultant on the Louis Massiah film on Du Bois, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices."
Articles
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Prime Minister of the State We Never Had, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2011)
Black Intellectuals and the American Social Scene, The Black World (1975)
This lead essay is an examination of Black Intellectuals in the post-Civil Rights Movement era...
Books
Malcolm X: Make it Plain (1994)
From Blackside, Inc., the award-winning production team that created the national bestseller Eyes on the...
Presentations
FRANTZ FANON: HIS LIFE AND WORK, International Tribute to Frantz Fanon (1979)
A review of the life and work of Frantz Fanon prepared at the request of...