Publications

Book

Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.

To Order: Go to University of Illinois Press or Amazon.

Recognition for Race News

• Winner, Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, 2018.
• Finalist, Tankard Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2018.

Media Interveiws

• Interview with Roland Martin, Roland Martin Unfiltered, October 19, 2018,
  https://youtu.be/-OPmgFZWUFY
• Interview with Rachel Otwell, National Public Radio Illinois, April 4, 2018,
  http://nprillinois.org/post/race-news-book-explores-history-black-press#stream/0
• Interview with Johnny St. Jean, C-SPAN Cities Tour, C-SPAN 2, November 19, 2016,
  https://www.c-span.org/video/?418771-1/race-news

Journal Articles

“The Completely True Story of the Fraudulent Ethiopian Princess: Racial Stereotypes and Journalistic Conventions in the Framing of a Media Hoax,” American Journalism 39 (Winter 2022): 51-71.

Source: Library of Congress.

“The Racial Politics of Place: Jim Crow, the New Deal, and Suburban Housing on the Virginia Peninsula,” Journal of Urban History 40 (May 2014): 514-535.

Commentary

“Considerations on the Effectiveness of the NNPA,” Journalism & Communication Monographs 22 (Winter 2020): 337-341.

Encyclopedia

“Black Journalists” in The World of Jim Crow: A Daily Life Encyclopedia. Edited by Steven A.
Reich. Vol. 1. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2019.

Online Articles

“The Radical Diversity of Liberator Magazine.” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society. February 11, 2019.

“From Communism to Black Power: The Atlanta Daily World’s Conservative Framing of Civil Rights Radicalism.” Atlanta Studies, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. February 2018.