Susan T. Gooden is dean and professor of public administration and policy at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.

john a. powell is Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion, professor of law, African American studies, and ethnic studies, and director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.

Samuel L. Myers Jr. is Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

Contributors: William A. Darity Jr., Thomas J. Davis, Timothy M. Diette, Dania V. Francis, Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, Seong C. Kang, john a. powell, Jason Reece, Douglas S. Reed, Paru Shah, Robert S. Smith, Shai Stern, Leland Ware, Brian N. Williams