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For Black History month, I had a chance to speak with the Montclair Public Library podcast about the Slavery's Descendants anthology. (The interview starts 15 minutes, 20 seconds in.)Thanks to H-Net and H-Slavery for the in-depth interview with Jill Strauss and me about Slavery's Descendants anthology.Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation was mentioned in this Washington Post article about the richest slave traders in U.S. history.Thanks to my alma mater for spreading the word about the Slavery's Descendants anthology in Fordham University Magazine.The anthology, Slavery's Descendants received a Fall 2018 Furthermore Grant from the J.M. Kaplan Fund.I received a 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts along with 35 other writers.Thanks to a research grant, I get to use the Special Collections at Louisiana State University. Go Tigers!An excerpt from Finding Josephine won me a Sustainable Arts Foundation award for fall 2016I’m interviewed on Canadian Broadcast Company radio show, Day 6 by Brent Bambury on “Why the Confederate Flag Flies in Brazil.”I’m interviewed in The New York Times front-page story about Confederate History in Sao Paulo, Brazil.