Public Essays

• “Settle Your Quarrels.” Boston Review. September 19, 2023.

• with Jodi Dean. “Before #HotLaborSummer.” Boston Review. August 31, 2022.

• “Class Struggle and Freedom Beyond Colonial Borders.” Hood Communist, February 3, 2022.

• “Against the “Triple Evils”: The Biden Administration’s Affront to Dr. King’s Legacy.” Black Agenda Report, January 19, 2022.

• “A Truncated Story of Black Liberation.” The Black Agenda Review, June 23, 2021.

• “Caste Does Not Explain Race.” Boston Review, December 15, 2020.

• “(Anti-)Imperialism, Knowledge Production, and Political Economy.” Black Perspectives, November 27, 2019.

• with Crystal Moten. “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora: An Introduction.” Black Perspectives, November 11, 2019.

• “Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe.” Black Perspectives, July 16, 2019.

• “Between Radicalism and Repression: Walter Rodney’s Revolutionary Praxis.” Black Perspectives, May 6, 2019.

• “The National Character of Black Oppression.” Black Perspectives, March 6, 2019.

• “Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles.” Black Perspectives, November 9, 2018.

• “‘Stoolpigeons’ and the Treacherous Terrain of Freedom Fighting.” Black Perspectives, September 13, 2018.

• “Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden.” Black Perspectives, June 14, 2018.

• “Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics.” Black Perspectives, May 12, 2018.

• “The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization.” Black Perspectives, April 30, 2018.

• “The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies.” Black Perspectives, March 20, 2018.

• “Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement.” Black Perspectives, February 12, 2018.

• “Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tradition of Radical Blackness.” Black Perspectives, January 23, 2018.

• “Why Claudia Jones Will Always Be More Relevant than Ta-Nehisi Coates.” Black Agenda Report, September 20, 2017.

• “Black Radicalism, Repression, and the Horne Biographical Method.” Black Perspectives, June 9, 2017.