MEDIA APPEARANCES
“The Rise of Bookstores with a Social Mission,” The New York Times, June 10, 2024
“Baltimore’s Former Mayor Teaches the City’s History — and His Own,” The Washington Post, January 1, 2022
100 Years Ago, ‘Crazy Blues’ Sparked a Revolution for Black Women Fans,” The New York Times, August 10, 2020
“How Black Bookstores Owners See the Flood of Requests for Anti-Racist Readings,” PBS News Hour, June 23, 2020
“How the Rise of Supermarkets Left Out Black America,” CNN, June 16, 2020
“Inside Historic Black Bookstores' Fight for Survival against the COVID-19 pandemic,” USA Today, May 11, 2020
“The Political Resilience of the Black-Owned Bookstore,” Mic, February 6, 2020
“The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold,” The Nation, April 10, 2019
“Making History Go Viral: Historians Used the Twitter Thread to Add Context and Accuracy to the New Cycle in 2018. Here’s How They Did It,” Slate, December 11, 2018
“George H. W. Bush Leaves Mixed Record on Race, Civil Rights,” USA Today, December 3, 2018
The Marc Steiner Show, The Real News Network, July 30, 2018
"Drum and Spear: How a Local Bookstore Educated Washington about Black Power in the '60s and '70s," The Kojo Nnamdi Show, May 15, 2018
"Black Bookstores and the FBI," The Solomon Jones Show, March 20, 2018
"Radical Storefronts of the 1960s: Mixing Politics and Profits," Midday, WYPR, Baltimore, March 8, 2018
"The Weird, Interesting, and Vanished World of Activist Entrepreneurs," The State of Things, WUNC, Durham, January 4, 2018
"The Beat's Top 10 Baltimore Books of 2017," Baltimore Beat, December 27, 2017
"Last of Philly's Black-Owned Bookstores Looking for a Comeback," The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 2017
"From Head Shops to Whole Foods," And The Rest of Us, WHIV, New Orleans, November 16, 2017
"From Head Shops to Whole Foods," New Books Network, November 2, 2017
"Activist Businesses in the 1960s and 1970s," Who Makes Cents, October 3, 2017
"American Consumerism," Pantsuit Politics, October 2, 2017
"The Rise and Fall of Social Entrepreneurism," AirTalk, KPCC, Los Angeles, August 28, 2017
"The First Mission Driven Companies," Time, July 26, 2017
"Feed Your Head: Night Flight Takes a Trip back to the Early '70s Head Shop," Night Flight, January 21, 2016
Radio interview, “Durham’s Soul Music Revived,” The State of Things, WUNC-Durham (NPR Affiliate), August 15, 2014,
Documentary interview, Gate City Soul, directed by Doug Klesch, February 21, 2014
“Porches, the Bull and the Blues: Museum of Durham History Presents Second Pop Up Event,” Durham Herald-Sun, December 6, 2012
Television interview, “Bull City Soul Revival,” Black Issues Forum, WUNC-Durham (PBS Affiliate), April 2012
Radio interview, “Carolina Soul and Consumer Culture,” The State of Things, WUNC-Durham (NPR Affiliate), June 2010