A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (UNC Press 2024)

*A CHANCE FOR CHANGE: HEAD START AND MISSISSIPPI'S BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE (UNC PRESS 2016)

“‘Every Child A Chance’: Black Education Prior to Desegregation through an Examination of the Johnston County Training School,” NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW CI (July 2024): 257-285.

“THE FIRST MARCH ON RALEIGH: NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF LAW AND THE FIGHT FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY,” NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW XCIX (OCTOBER 2022): 375-401.

“‘WE VERY MUCH PREFER TO HAVE A COLORED MAN IN CHARGE’: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND TUSKEGEE’S ALL BLACK FACULTY,” ALABAMA REVIEW 74, no. 2 (APRIL 2021): 99-128.

“‘PURSUING THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF DEMOCRACY’: WILLA B PLAYER AND LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA,” NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW (JANUARY 2019): 1-33.

*“MONEY TALKS: THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN MISSISSIPPI,” HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY (MAY 2016): 361-367.

*“MORE THAN COOKIES AND CRAYONS: HEAD START PROGRAMS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1965-1968” JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 100 (FALL 2015): 586-609.
  
*“BLUE WATER, BLACK BEACH: THE NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AND HAMMOCKS BEACH IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW,” NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW XCII (APRIL 2015): 145-164.
  
*“DIGNITY IN LIFE AND DEATH: UNDERTAKER CLARIE COLLINS HARVEY AND BLACK WOMEN’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVISM,” JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY LXXVI (FALL/WINTER 2014): 111-127.
 
*“NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE ON DISPLAY:  GOVERNOR BOB SCOTT AND THE 1968 BENSON AFFAIR,” JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY LXXIX (AUGUST 2013): 659-680.

“Tina Turner’s All-Black High School Was Key to Her Legacy,” Washington Post, June 5, 2023

“Racist Violence in Wilmington’s Past Echoes in Police Officer Recordings Today,” Washington Post, June 26, 2020

“Katherine Johnson Should Also Remembered for Desegregating Higher Education,” Washington Post, February 25, 2020.

“Unita Blackwell’s Legacy of Educational Activism Lives On,” The North Star, May 23, 2019.

“One Size Does Not Fit All: Bennett’s Accreditation Problem,” Diverse Issues in Higher Education, February 28, 2019.

“Protest and Punishment in Rural North Carolina,” Process: A Blog for American History, December 21, 2018.

“More Than A Song: Giving Aretha a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T,” Black Perspectives: The Blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, August 16, 2018.

18 Books about Black Women's History to Read to Better Understand 'Lemonade'

*“WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY: A PIONEERING INSTITUTION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION,” FEBRUARY 2015.
 
*“SOUTH CAROLINA’S BRILLIANT IDEA FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH,” HISTORY NEWS NETWORK, FEBRUARY 11, 2015.

*“TARGETING ELIZABETH CITY WAS UNFAIR GIVEN NC’S HISTORICAL UNDERFUNDING OF HBCUS,” NEWS AND OBSERVER, MAY 31, 2014