Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, 1940–1955. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

• C-Span2 BookTV Discussion [video, 22 minutes]

Coeditor Charles Payne. Time Longer than Rope: Studies in African American Activism, 1850–1950. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

• Begins research for the Official Oral History of the Obamas

• Writes op-ed on the 1919 Chicago race riots for The New York Times

• Quoted in Hyde Park Herald article  on the shooting of Tamir Rice

• Quoted in The Chicago Tribune article on 1919 Chicago race riots

• Participates in Q&A with the University of Chicago Magazine