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 We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019), Cedric Robinson (Polity Press, 2021) and Of Black Study (Pluto, 2023) as well as the editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal.