Joshua M. Myers is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He is the author of Of Black Study, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition, and We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989, as well as the editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. In addition to serving on the board of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and the editorial board of The Compass: Journal of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, he is the senior content producer at the Africa World Now Project, and served as the co-coordinator of the SNCC Legacy Project's Black Power Chronicles Oral History Project and as an organizer with Washington DC's Positive Black Folks in Action.