Authors

Melissa Harris-Perry is a writer, professor, television host, and political commentator. She is the author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (Yale University Press).

Julian Hipkins III, an award-winning U.S. history teacher with 15 years of teaching experience, is the Global Education Coordinator at Roosevelt Senior High School (DCPS).

Sudie Hofmann is a professor in the Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

Vincent J. Intondi is an associate professor of history at Montgomery College and director of research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute. He is the author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press, 2015).

William Loren Katz is the author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage, The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History (with Marc Crawford), and 40 other books on African American history, including many for young adults.

Alison Kysia is the project director of “Islamophobia: a people’s history teaching guide” at Teaching for Change. She is the author of “Bashing Howard Zinn: A Critical Look at One of the Critics” and a history of The Green Feather Movement.

Clarence Lusane is a professor and chairs the Department of Political Science at Howard University and author of The Black History of the White House (City Lights).

Bill McKibben is president and co-founder of 350.org, an international grassroots campaign that aims to mobilize a global climate movement united by a common call to action, and the author of a dozen books, including The End of Nature (Random House) and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (St. Martin’s Griffin).