Deborah E. McDowell, Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute and Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of "The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory. Claudrena N. Harold, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942. Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology, Public Health, and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center, is coeditor of Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-First Century.