Editorial board

Founding Editor
†Manning Marable (1955-2011) -  Columbia University

Editor
Jafari S. Allen, Columbia University, USA

Managing Editor
Marco Durce Roc -  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Editorial Staff
Jennifer Ash -  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Editorial Working Group
Martha Biondi - Northwestern University, USA
Cathy J. Cohen - University of Chicago, USA
Michael C. Dawson - University of Chicago, USA
Roderick Ferguson - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Helen Heran Jun - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Lynette A. Jackson - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Cedric Johnson, Chair - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Beth Richie - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jane Rhodes - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
David Stovall - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Editorial Advisory Board
*Hishaam Aidi - Columbia University, USA
Zaheer Ali - Columbia University, USA
Asale Angel-Ajani -  New York University, USA
Lee D. Baker  - Duke University, USA
†  Amiri Baraka  - Artist / Activist
A. Lynne Bolles  - University of Maryland, USA
Rose Brewer  - University of Minnesota, USA
Clayborne Carson  - Stanford University, USA
Kathleen Neal Cleaver  - Emory University, USA
Johnnetta B.Cole  - Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Angela Y. Davis  - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
*Dana-Ain Davis - The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
Michael Dawson  - University of Chicago, USA
† Ruby Dee  - Artist / Activist
Bill Fletcher, Jr.  - Independent Scholar
Beverly Guy-Sheftall -   Spelman University, USA
Michael Eric Dyson - Georgetown University, USA
Grant Farred - Duke University, USA
Eric Foner - Columbia University, USA
Murray Forman - Northeastern University, USA 
Steven Gregory - Columbia University, USA
Farah Jasmine Griffin - Columbia University, USA
*Fredick Harris - Columbia University, USA
Faye Harrison - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Darlene Clark Hine - Northwestern University, USA
Gerald Horne - University of Houston, USA
F. Abiola Irele - Kwara State University, Nigeria
John Jackson - University of Pennylvania, USA
Joy James - Williams College, USA
James Jennings  - Tufts University, USA
Martha Jones - University of Michigan, USA
Robin D.G. Kelley - UCLA, USA
Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie - Howard University, USA
Mahmood Mamdani  - Columbia University, USA
Anthony Marx  - NYC Public Library
Timothy Patrick McCarthy  - Harvard University, USA
*Shaka McGlotten - State University of New York, Purchase, USA
Brian Meeks  -  Brown University, USA
Keesha Middlemass  -  Trinity University, USA
Mignon R. Moore  -  Barnard College, USA
*Leith Mullings - The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
*Premilla Nadasen - Barnard College, USA
Robert O ’Meally  - Columbia University, USA
*Priya Parmar - Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
john powell  - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Brian Purnell - Fordham University, USA
*Michael Ralph - New York University, USA
Bernice Johnson Reagon  - Spelman University, USA
Don Robotham - The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
David Roediger -  University of Kansas, USA
Sonia Sanchez  -  Temple University, USA
† Mark Q.Sawyer -  UCLA, USA
*Carla Shedd -  Columbia University, USA
Nikhil P.Singh -  New York University, USA
Julia Chinyere Oparah -  Mills College, USA
Sudhir Venkatesh -  Columbia University, USA
Michele Wallace -  The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
Geoff Ward -  University of California, Irvine, USA
Cornel West -  Union Theological Seminary, USA
Howard Winant -  University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Vershawn Ashanti Young -  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

* Former members of the Editorial Working Group

† Deceased