George Derek Musgrove is associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research and teaching examine African American politics in the United States post-1965. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (University of Georgia Press, 2012). With Chris Myers Asch, he is the coauthor of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), a Kirkus Best Book of 2017. Most recently, Musgrove released Black Power in Washington, D.C. — a web-based map of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital between 1961 and 1998. His commentary and opinions have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Root, as well as on National Public Radio. He lives with his wife and sons in Washington, D.C.
His project, “‘We must take to the streets again:’ The Black Power Resurgence in Conservative America,” explores the black activism of the 1980s and ’90s that rose in opposition to the urban crisis and the conservative ascendance in U.S. politics.
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