SCHOLARLY WRITING
“Freedom on Her Own Terms: California M. Taylor and Black Womanhood in Boley, Oklahoma,” in This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s-2010s, Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, eds. in Women in the American West Series, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021), 132-152.
“Boley, Indian Territory: Exercising Freedom in the All-Black Town,” Journal of African American History, Fall 2017, Special Issue co-edited by V. P. Franklin and Kendra T. Field.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
"Protesters Marching in Elizabeth City, N.C., over Andrew Brown's Are Walking in the Footsteps of Centuries of of Fighters for Black Rights," The Conversation, June 9, 2021.
“Responding to the Call: Engaging the Public in Conversations About African American Civil War Participation, January 19, 2021, Muster: How the Past Informs the Present, January 19, 2021.
“Juneteenth in Houston and George Floyd,” Cite Black Women Collective. June 19, 2020.
“The Boley Carnival: A Juneteenth Like No Other,” The New Territory: The Magazine of the Lower Midwest, Issue 5, December 2017. (in print and online)
"Slavery, Freedom and African American Voices in the Midwest," The New Territory Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2016, reprinted in Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest, ed. Terrion L. Williamson, (Cleveland: Belt Publications, 2020)
"America's Willful Ignorance of Our History of Lynching Feeds Racial Hatred," with Christen A. Smith, The American Prospect, March 18, 2015
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Published on BlackPast.org
- "Creek Seminole College"--private institution founded by John C. Leftwich in 1906 to educate young Creek and Seminole Freedmen, Indians, and African American settlers.
- "John C. Leftwich"--founder and first president of the Creek-Seminole College in Boley, Oklahoma.
Published in African American National Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- "Buck Colbert Franklin"--Oklahoma attorney and father of historian John Hope Franklin.
- "Thomas M. Haynes"--co-founder of Boley, Oklahoma.
- "John C. Leftwich"--founder and first president of the Creek-Seminole College in Boley, Oklahoma.
- "David J. Turner"--long serving president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Boley, Oklahoma, one only a handful of African American banks in the state.
Published in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Edition 2, ed., William A. Darity, (McMillan Reference USA, 2007).
SELECT NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
"ECSU Practice School also hosted cosmetology program," Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, June 16, 2023
"Excavating ROTC's role in Practice School's history," April 8, 2023
“Rosenwald Schools Show Community Desires to Educate Kids” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, November 26, 2022.
“Markers honor sit-in, women’s suffrage leader Jones,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, October 15, 2022.
“ECSU’s century-old Rosenwald School to take on new role,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, September 16, 2022.
“123 Years Later, Students Still Flock to ECSU Summer School,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, July 16, 2022
“Year later, work to preserve Old Oak showing results,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, April 30, 2022.
"Marker to honor EC women's suffrage advocate Jones," Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, December 4, 2021.
"'Oasis Spaces' Exhibit and ECSU's Green Book Project," Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, September 4, 2021.
"'Raising the Roof' on July 4th in northeastern NC," Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, July 3, 2021.
“ECSU to mark Library Week with Rosenwald Fund Talk,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, March 27, 2021.
“Celebrating 'Watch Night' and 'Emancipation Day,'” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, December 27, 2020.
“Sponsor Sought for Marker to Voting Rights Advocate Jones,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, November 1, 2020.
“ECSU students, profs document African-American history” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, September 13, 2020.
“Albemarle Bank was region’s first black-owned bank,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, June 14-15, 2020.
“The Green Book Project: African-American travel in NC,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, May 24, 2020.
“ECSU to Host Workshop on African-American Cemeteries,” Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, NC, March 15, 2020.