Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Stanford, and Jasmin A. Young

Akinyele Umoja is a professor and chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University.

Karin L. Stanford, PhD, is professor of Africana studies at California State University, Northridge.

Jasmin A. Young is a historian of 20th-century African American history with specializations in women and gender.