Minkah Makalani is the Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He works in Black political thought, intellectual history, and the Black radical tradition in the Caribbean and U.S. He is the author of, In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 (UNC Press, 2011) and co-editor (with Davarian Baldwin) of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013).