2009 Pulitzer Prize in History winner, African-American historian and attorney Prof Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of Monticello, and In 2017, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs, another bestseller about the third US President, Thomas Jefferson, and the main writer of the Declaration of Independence, and lifelong enslaver.  Those he enslaved included several of his own children by an enslaved woman on his plantation.

Award-winning journalist and Professor Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Project 1619: A New Origin Story, published in 2019.

Professor Jarvis Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021) and American Grammar: Race, Education and the Building of a Nation (2025).

Journalist and Radio host Clay Cane published in 2024, The Grift: Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump is a masterful cataloguing of the arguments and actions of Black so-called conservatives over nearly 200 years.  This is an enlightening work that brings together the words, writings and actions of those who benefit financially and otherwise from discrediting progressive Black movements. 

Karida L Brown published The Battle for the Black Mindin 2025, clarifying the activities of the Tuskegee Institute and its program of Industrial Education / vocational training that also refrained from directly challenging Jim Crow segregation and undermined Black educational programs that pursued liberal arts education.

Jasmine L Holmes published, Crowned with Glory , in 2023 – with primary sources in their own words from those enslaved and free throughout history, who fought to display the Image of God in Black men and women, despite the horrors of enslavement.

And, closest to home are the historical writing of my husband, Warren, and the memoir of my college collaborators and me.  Warren L. Maye (2008). Soldiers of Uncommon Valor: The History of Salvationists of African Descent in the United States is the definitive documentation of the contributions of Blacks in the Salvation Army movement from its inception in the United States until the time of this publication.

Finally, I and seven co-authors published our group memoir about our student activism at the college we attended in the Sixties:  Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance and Untold Truths Behind Student Activism in the 1960s.  The coauthors: Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S Buchanan, Jannette Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, Aundrea White Kelley.