Biography

     A native of Southeast, DC, he teaches literature, music, political theory, criticism and film, both across and beyond Pan-African and Black radical traditions. He is author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire (Indiana UP, 2007) as well as Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge and Pleasure in Lil’ Kim’s Lyricism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). He is co-editor with L.H. Stallings of Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines (Black Classic Press, 2011). The founding editor of PROUD FLESH, an-e-journal, he has also guest-edited a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review entitled “Coloniality’s Persistence” (2003) as well as a “Close-Up” on Haile Gerima’s eleventh film, Teza, for Black Camera: An International Film Journal (2013).  His many articles and essays appear in a wide variety of academic and other periodicals.  Currently, he is completing a book on the writings of George L. Jackson and continuing to curate the traveling “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine” exhibition, which first opened in October 2015 at the museum of the Abu Jihad Center for the Political Captive’s Movement in the West Bank.  (Its most recent mounting was in Gaza City of August 2022.)  He curated another exhibition, “A Black Panther Reawakens: The Life & Work of Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture,” which launched on November 22, 2018, at l’Université Gamal Abdel Nasser in Conakry, Guinea.  His most recent publications include a new foreword to Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance(Seven Stories Press, 2025) as well as a contribution to a special “GAZA” issue of NAQD: Revue d’Etudes et de Critique Sociale, which is based in Algeria.