Brandi Collins-Dexter, a keen observer of politics, an insightful scholar on race and a brilliant author, recently passed away at the age of 44.

Today, a look back at Collins-Dexter's Midday interview on her book, Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and our Political Future. The author joined Midday in November 2022, just days before the mid-term elections in 2022.

Collins-Dexter, who lived in Baltimore, was a Media Justice Fellow at The Center on Race & Digital Justice, and the associate director of research at the Technology and Social Change Project housed at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. Brandi held the Schuster Media & Technology fellowship at the Shorenstein Center from Fall 2023 until the time of her death.

From 2014 to 2020, she served as the former Senior Campaign Director of the social justice organization, Color Of Change.

In Black Skinhead, Collins-Dexter zoomed in on the relationship between Black voters and the Democratic party, an alliance that began during the civil rights movement more than half a century ago and argued assumptions about that relationship need to be re-examined.