Nishani Frazier

  

I am originally from North Carolina - Raleigh/Durham area. I am a historian of African American History. My first book is due to be published this fall. My second book project looks at food and black nationalism. A formal bio is included below.

Nishani Frazier is the author of “To Die For the People: Prophecy and Death in the Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton" in Homegoings, Crossings, and Passings: Life and Death in the African Diaspora; "Building a Black Nation: CORE, Black Power, and the Community Development Corporation Movement” in The New Black History edited by Manning Marable and Elizabeth Kai Hinton; and “A McDonald’s That Reflects the Soul of a People: McDonald’s Corporation, Operation Black Unity, Hough Area Development Corporation, and the Black Economic Empowerment” in The Business of Black Power, edited by Julia Rabig and Laura Hill. She co-edited with Manning Marable and John McMillan, Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (2003). Her book, Harambee City: Cleveland, CORE, and the Rise of Black Power is forthcoming under the University of Arkansas Press. This spring she was recently award a Fulbright to Norway.