Dr. Claudrena Harold

Claudrena N. Harold is the Edward Stettinius Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of three books, The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (Routledge, 2007), New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South (University of Georgia Press, 2016), and When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras (University of Illinois Press, 2020). She is co-editor of the essay collection, Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity (University of Virginia Press, 2018). As a part of her ongoing work on the history of black student activism at UVA, she has written, produced, and co-directed with Kevin Everson nine short films: Sugarcoated Arsenic, Fastest Man in the State, 70 kg, U. Of Virginia, 1976, How Can We Ever Be Late, Black Bus Stop, Hampton, Pride, and We Demand.