Farah Jasmine Griffin

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Farah Griffin Professor, Author  Farah Jasmine Griffin is the inaugural Chair of the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University, where she also serves as   the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature. ...
Tamura Lomax

Tamura Lomax

Tamura Lomax Professor, Author Tamura Lomax is the Foundational Associate Professor of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from Vanderbilt University in Religion, where she specialized in Black...
Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles Professor, Author @TiyaMilesTAM Tiya Miles is the author of four prize-winning books in the history of American slavery, including: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, which won the 2021 National Book Award for...
Ahmad T. Greene-Hayes

Ahmad T. Greene-Hayes

Ahmad T. Greene-Hayes Professor, Author  Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes is one of the most exciting scholars amongst a dynamic new generation of scholars of African American Religious Studies. A social historian and critical theorist, Greene-Hayes’s research interests include...
Michael Harriot

Michael Harriot

Michael Harriot Journalist, Author @michaelharriot Michael Harriot is the Senior Writer at TheRoot.com where he covers the intersection of race, politics, and culture.  Also, animal attacks. (But mostly the politics and race stuff.) His work has appeared in the...