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Interviews
Quoted In
- Daniel Rivero, “‘Those folks are not welcome’: How a DeSantis priority is changing Florida universities,” WLRN (March 1, 2024)
- C. Isaiah Smalls II, “‘Everything was intentionally erased.’ Miami museum exhibit recounts Rosewood massacre,” Miami Herald (January 26, 2023)
- Terrence Fraser, “Where the U.S. Now Stands with Monkeypox and How We Got Here,” APM Research Lab (November 2, 2022)
- Brandon Tensley, “Why We Shouldn’t Tiptoe around Who is at Highest Risk for Monkeypox Infection,” CNN (August 18, 2022)
- Lester Fabian Brathwaite, “No More Non-Apologies,” Rolling Stone (August 6, 2021)
- Melinda D. Anderson, “Why Black Parents Aren’t Joining the Push to Reopen Schools,” Mother Jones (March 18, 2020)
- Eugene Scott, “Educating Black Americans about the Coronavirus Vaccine Could Increase Their Willingness to Get It,” Washington Post (December 28, 2020)
- Olivia B. Waxman, “On World AIDS Day, Those Who Fought the 1980s Epidemic Find Striking Differences and Tragic Parallels in COVID-19,” Time (December 1, 2020)
- Maya Lorin and April Rubin, “Why Some Floridians Want to Rename Broward County, Plantation and Lee County,” Miami Herald (June 19, 2020)
- Laura Hilgers, “Let’s Open Up About Addiction and Recovery,” New York Times (November 4, 2017)
Podcasts (as host)
OAH Intervals
Book Talks and Interviews
Stonewall National Museum & Archives
Lehman Center for American History
UCSF Archives: Toward a History of Black AIDS Activism
Unsung History
World AIDS Museum Spotlight Series
The Polis Project
Counter Narrative Project—Narratology
Left of Black
UNC Libraries’ Off the Shelf
New Books in History
Panel Discussions
University of Miami School of Law Human Rights Clinic
February 2022 panel discussion on the documentary film Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS was not recorded, but you can read the report of the panel discussion here.
Philadelphia Public Health Grand Rounds
Radio Appearances
Freedom Now with Gerald Horne (KPFK; April 29, 2023)
“USA: vaccination skepticism among blacks” (Echo of Time, Swiss Public Radio; February 17, 2021
“Black Americans Have Reasons To Distrust The New COVID Vaccine” (Reset WBEZ; December 17, 2020)
“South Florida Grapples With Its Own Contested Monuments Of Spanish Conquistadors” (Sundial WLRN; June 30, 2020)
Invited Talks
“The AIDS Crisis is Not Over: The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of AIDS Activism” (University of Florida Health Science Center Library)
