ROY WOOD JR. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer for the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground, a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and host of Comedy Central’s award-winning podcast, The Daily Show: Beyond the Scenes. Spring of 2023, Wood guest hosted The Daily Show and headlined the White House Correspondents' Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017.
Author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775-1995 (which earned me an MLA William Scarborough Prize) and King’s Vibrato: Blackness, Modernism and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr., both published by Duke Univ. Press, I am also the proud co-editor with Shawn Michelle Smith of Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity. Additionally, I have authored a short biography of Langston Hughes for junior high and high school students, and have several scholarly articles to my name, ranging topically from the religious roots of African American literature to photography, disability, and black oratory.
LaShawn Harris is a Professor of History at Michigan State University and former Assistant Editor of the Journal of African American History (JAAH). Her area of expertise includes twentieth century African American and Black Women’s histories. Harris’s scholarly essays have appeared in The Journal of African American History, Journal of Social History, Journal of Women's History, and the Journal of Urban History.Harris’s work has been widely featured in popular media outlets, including TV-One, Glamour Magazine, Elle, Vice, The Huffington Post, The History Channel, and Paramount Television Studios.
Harris is also the author of Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & The Police Killing that Galvanized New York City. Published by Beacon Press in 2025, Tell Her Story was named a 2026 finalist for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History book prize and the Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards).
President at Colorado College
Professor of Education
Educational Consultant
Author, Public School Equity: Educational Leadership for Justice, Schooling Multicultural Teachers: A Guide for Program Assessment and Professional Development, and Learning from the Inside-Out: Child Development and School Choice.
I am a writer, teacher, and storyteller obsessed with the lives that history overlooks — the women at the edges, the families whose stories get buried, the communities that survive against every odd. My books move across genres — memoir, ethnography, fiction — because the truth, in my experience, rarely fits into a single form. I came into writing the long way around. I was born into silence — not metaphorically, but literally.
Author of Fugitive Archives: My Family and the American Myth of Belonging, A Country You Can Leave, Strange Trade: The Story of Two Women Who Risked Everything in the International Drug Trade.
www.fionadavisbooks.com
Author of
The Magnolia Palace
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The Chelsea Girls
The Masterpiece
The Address
The Dollhouse
Award-winning Writer, Researcher, and Cultural Analyst
Associate Professor, Department of History & African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author– Queen Mother” Audley Moore: Mother of Black Nationalism, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed An Era, and New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
Historian, Scholar-Activist, Public Intellectual, and Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins (2025, NYU Press’ Black Power Series)
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director of Sociology
Sociologist
Educator
Public Intellectual
Social Justice Advocate
Author, Race on the Move and Not All In
Writer
Author, Surviving The White Gaze, Sugar in the Raw, Uncle Tom or New Negro
Cultural Critic
Podcast Creator & Host
Creative Consultant
Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Tufts University.
Public Historian, African American Trail Project and the Du Bois Forum
Co-curator, We Who Believe In Freedom: Black Feminist DC,” the inaugural exhibition (2023) of the National Women’s History Museum.
Project Historian, Du Bois Freedom Center
Chief Historian, 10 Million Names Project
Author, Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War and The Stories We Tell.
Doctorate in Pastoral Counseling
Masters of Arts in Counseling Services
Counselor Educator
Program Chair
Designer of curriculum and pedagogy to educate professional counselors, psychologists, social workers, and mental health professionals
CACREP accreditation
Founder of MOSAIC Consulting and Counseling Services.
Specializing in Cultural Competence in Counseling, Wellness in Faith and Spiritual-based Communities, Disordered and Problem Gambling, Homicidal Loss, and Grief and Loss Recovery.
Clinical specialty includes Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Trauma
Author, Sushi Tuesdays: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Resilience
Author, Lecturer, and Professor
Dr. Jules K. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
Books: One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal, (Princeton University Press in October 2025, The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty , The Essential Douglass: Writings and Speeches , and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy.
Author, The Last Woman in the Forest, Breaking Wild, Season of Ice, love cajun style, and The Stones of Mourning Creek
Author, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard.
Sociologist
Author, Black and Queer on Campus, behind the laughs, PAINT the WHITE HOUSE BLACK, and THUG LIFE
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Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Lehman College-City University of New York
Author of Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs, Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City.
Academic
Author, Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Womanist Biblical Interpretation, Reimagining Hagar, and The Untold Story of An American Icon
Author, Rise and Divine, Paybacks A Witch, From Bad to Cursed, Back in a Spell, In Charm's Way, Wicked Like A Wildfire, Fierce Like A Firestorm, Blood Countess, and Poison Priestess.
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Dr. Brandon R. Byrd Historian of nineteenth and twentieth century black intellectual and social history, with a special focus on black internationalism.
Author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti , co-editor of Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History , and of Haiti for the Haitians by Louis-Joseph Janvier.
Author of the novels Bed-Stuy Is Burning and The Body Politic
Writes for The New York Times, NewYorker.com, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and many other publications.
Public Theologian
Author, Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality
Author, The Cold is in Her Bones and The Beast Is An Animal
Editor
Author of
Who’s Black and Why w/ Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Diderot And The Art of Thinking Freely
The Anatomy of Blackness
Sublime Disorder
Scholar of Religion, Gender & Ethics
Author, The Woman Question in Islamic Studies, Tying the Knot, Half of Faith, Human in Death, Sexual Ethics and Islam, The Lives of Muhammad, Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam, and others.
Author, What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw, The New Neighbor, The History of Us, Husband and Wife, The Myth of You and Me, and The Body of a Girl
Author, Amy's Story, Album Di Famiglia, Imaging Russia 2000, Before the Fall, The Red Screen, and other books.
