Published Works on Policing and Politics, History and Education

School Leaders Can Learn From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Shared Power Leadership Style, Education Dive, 1/17/20, https://www.educationdive.com/news/school-leaders-can-learn-from-martin-luther-king-jrs-shared-power-leadersh/570049/

Author Christian DiSpigna Is On a Mission to Honor a Revolutionary War Hero, History News Network, 10/13/19, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173292

Dan Rather Claims the Press and Faith Will Get Us Past Trump’s Transgressions. Is He Right?, History News Network, 9/22/19, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173101

Have Police-Community Relations Improved From Harlem to Hollis?, Harlem World Magazine, 11/25/18, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-have-police-community-relations-improved-from-harlem-to-hollis/

How Does Change Happen When Protest Ends? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide seeking Answers, Harlem World Magazine, 5/6/18, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/change-achieved-protest-ends-unique-school-sends-teens-citywide-seeking-answers/

What Makes Social Protest Effective? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide seeking Answers, Harlem World Magazine (and History News Network) , 10/23/17, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-makes-social-protest-effective-unique-school-sends-teens-citywide-seeking-answers/

Trump’s War Speech: Democracy Abroad, Hypocrisy at Home. Have We Learned Nothing From History? Harlem World Magazine, 8/24/17 (not linked)

There’s Still Reason to Celebrate President Kennedy: A Centennial Reflection, History News Network and Harlem World Magazine, 6/10/17, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-john-f-kennedy-centennial-reflection/

A Testament of Faith for Beyond the Election, Harlem World Magazine, 11/11/16, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-testament-faith-beyond-election/

What Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Accomplished, Harlem World Magazine, 10/26/16, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-colin-kaepernick-protest-accomplished/

What a Real Conversation on Race Would Entail: We Don’t Have to Guess, Richmond Has Set an Example, History News Network, 8/27/16, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163648

Want a Happy Ending to the Crisis Over Police shootings? Here’s a Way Forward, History News Network, 7/31/16, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163495

We’ve Marched. We’ve Protested. Now Let’s Address the Police Violence Problem, History News Network, 7/10/16, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/163323

Democracy Depends on Exchanging Ideas. Do Leaders Listen?, Harlem World Magazine, 7/6/15, https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/op-ed-democracy-depends-on-exchanging-ideas-do-leaders-listen/

The Predictable Choreography of Police Violence, History News Network, 6/14/15, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159604

President Obama Said “We Must Not Feign Interest But Return to Business as Usual. Here’s How He Could Address the Baltimore Riot’s Root Causes, History News Network.org/article/5/7/15, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159332

Did King’s Dream of the “Beloved Community” Delude Us? History News Network and Initiatives of Change, 5/3/15, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159212

This Is What’s Missing From Black History Month, History News Network, Public Seminar and Initiatives of Change, 2/6/15, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159529

I Wondered How Bad It Could Be, Initiatives of Change, 1/20/15

Black Rage and White Denial Divide Us? Let’s Talk! A Ferguson Follow-Up, History News Network, 12/3/14, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/15779

Everybody Wants to Talk About What Happened in Ferguson. Here’s How a Meaningful Conversation Could Start, History News Network, 9/2/14, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156788

We’ve Heard From John McCain. We Need to Hear From Somebody Like George McGovern, History News Network, 7/14/14, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156276