Judson L. Jeffries is professor of African American and African studies at The Ohio State University-Columbus. He is editor or author of numerous books, including Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist and On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Shannon M. Cochran is professor in the Department of English and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and coordinator of the African American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs at Clayton State University. Included in her body of work on race, gender, and body politics is the intersectional examination of how representations in visual and narrative cultures impact the lived experiences of African American identities.

Molly Reinhoudt is former managing editor of Research in African Literatures and Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men in the Department of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. Jeffries, Cochran, and Reinhoudt are coeditors of The Purple One: Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between and Feel My Big Guitar: Prince and the Sound He Helped Create, both published by University Press of Mississippi.