Currently, she is an Associate Professor of African American history in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University located in West Lang Branch, New Jersey where she teaches courses in African American history and U.S. history. She also is President of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).

She has published book chapters, essays, and encyclopedia entries and edited/authored five books. Her latest books include Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History (Praeger, 2017) and, with Dr. G. Reginald Daniel, professor of historical sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union (University Press of Mississippi 2014).