PUBLIC WRITINGS: BLOG ESSAYS, OP-EDS & REVIEWS
“More than 40 Years After Police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in Her Bronx Apartment, People still #sayhername,”
The Conversations
“The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD for Resisting Eviction”
Literary Hub
“The Fatal Eviction of Eleanor Bumpurs”
Hell Gate
“Crystal Ball Gazers, Dream Books & The Occult,”
The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and The Public Sphere
“Why Harris Won”
MSU Today
“Everyday Harms: Black Women and A History of Police Violence,”
Association of Black of Black Women Historians (ABWH)
“Recovering The lives of City Women”
African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) May 19, 2020
“The Queen of Numbers: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and Harlem’s Gambling Racket”
The Gotham Center for New York City History
PUBLIC MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS / MENTIONS
“The Enduring Vigilante Credo of Bernie Goetz”
The New Republic
“Mamdani Knows Cops Can’t Solve NYC’s Mental Health Crisis,” New York Magazine
“Gaslight, Eleanor Bumpurs, and Alternative Geopolitics” (Quoted in online article )
“The Engines and Empires of New York City Gambling,” The New Yorker (Quoted in online article and print)
“Is it Time for a More Inclusive Era of Ownership in NYC’s Gaming and Casino Industry,” New York Amsterdam News, (Quoted in online article )
“MSU Professor works to document Black History,” The State News (Quoted in online article )
“70 Years After Brown v. Board,” MSU Today (Quoted in online article )
“Historians Vibe-Check the Gilded Age,” Vulture (Quoted in online article )
“This Woman Built a Formidable Gambling Empire in 1920s Harlem,” The History Channel (Quoted in online article )
“Stephanie St. Clair, Harlem’s ‘Numbers Queen,’ Dominated the Gambling Underground and Made Millions” (Quoted in online article )
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“The Capital City Murders: Black Women and Serial Murder in Interwar Washington, D. C.”
Journal of Social History
“‘They Chained Me to a Refrigerator Like a Dog': New York Black Women, Police Violence & Resistance during the Era of Reagan” in Black Movement: African American Urban History since The Great Migration, eds. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
“#SayHerName: Black Women, State Sanctioned Violence & Resistance,” The American Historian (Organization of American Historian (OAH) Magazine), September 2020: 30-38
“Beyond the Shooting: Eleanor Gray Bumpurs, Identity Erasure & Family Activism against Police Violence” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 20, No. 1, (January-March 2018): 86-109
‘Women and Girls in Jeopardy by His False Testimony:’ Charles Dancy, Urban Policing, and Black Women in New York City during the 1920s, Journal of Urban History, Vol. 44, No 3 (May 2018): 457-475
“‘The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian’: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia” Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, Issue 4 (Summer 2014): 922-942
“Marvel Cooke: Investigative Journalist, Communist & Black Radical Subject” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 2012): 91-126
“Running with the Reds: African American Women and the Communist Party during the Great Depression.” Journal of African American History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 21-40