Greg Burris is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut. His writings have appeared in CineAction, Cinema Journal, Electronic Intifada, The Guardian, Jadaliyya, Middle Eastern Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and other publications.
Jordan T. Camp is Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State, and coeditor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter.
Angela Y. Davis is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness program at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her most recent book is Freedom in a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.
Erica Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership and wrote the foreword to Cedric J. Robinson’s reprinted, Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership (2016).
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and Professor of Geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Visiting Professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck University of London. Her most recent book is The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins.
Stefano Harney is coauthor with Fred Moten of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. He teaches in Singapore.
Christina Heatherton is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, coeditor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, and author of The Color Line and the Class Struggle: The Mexican Revolution, Internationalism, and the American Century.
Gaye Theresa Johnson is Associate Professor of Black and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA and author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles.
Robin D. G. Kelley teaches History and Black Studies at UCLA. His latest book is Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.
George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include How Racism Takes Place, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, and A Life in the Struggle.
Alex Lubin is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary and coeditor of American Studies Encounters the Middle East.
Fred Moten is coauthor with Stefano Harney of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside.
Paul Ortiz is Director of the award-winning Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. His forthcoming book, An African American and Latinx History of the United States, will be published by Beacon Press as part of its ReVisioning American History series.
Steven Osuna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Long Beach. His contribution to this anthology began in Cedric Robinson’s “Black Radical Thought” graduate seminar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Kwame M. Philips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications, John Cabot University, specializing in visual and sensory media production, ethnographic documentary, visual anthropology and audio culture. Phillips’s work centers on multidisciplinary engagement and focuses on resilience, race, and social justice.
H. L. T. Quan is a political theorist and a documentary filmmaker. She currently teaches Justice Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
Shana L. Redmond is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Alpert School of Music and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora, and coeditor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader.
Cedric J. Robinson was a professor for more than forty years and author of several books, including Forgeries of Memory and Meaning.
Elizabeth P. Robinson was a media advocate and local, national, and international activist. Together they produced “Third World News Review” for more than 35 years.
Nikhil Pal Singh is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. He teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University, where he also directs the NYU Prison Education Program.
Damien M. Sojoyner is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Anthropology. Sojoyner researches the relationship among the public education system, prisons, and the construction of Black masculinity in Southern California.
Darryl C. Thomas is Associate Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He has published widely on the international politics of the Third World, African and Africana studies, globalization, democratization and global Africa, and resistance to globalization including US hegemony and empire.
Françoise Vergès, Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, is Chair Global South(s) at the Collège d’études mondiales, Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris. She writes, curates shows, and is a film director and activist.