Victoria Mejicanos, an AFRO News staff writer, interviews Dr. Ethelene Whitmire on her process of researching Reed Peggram, a Black queer Harvard scholar whom Whitmire recently published a book on

“I just wanted to tell this story,” Dr. Whitmire tells AFRO News. “I just thought that there was something there. And I like telling stories about African Americans we haven’t heard about.” Read the full article on Dr. Whitmire’s process here.