This week we interview Kerri K. Greenidge, the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. The author most recently of The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in An American Family (Liveright, November 2022), Greenidge also wrote Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright, 2019), one of The New York Times’ top picks of 2019. She is also the recipient of the Mark Lynton Prize in History, Massachusetts Book Award, J. Anthony Lukas Award, Fordham University’s Sperber Award, and the Peter J. Gomes Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society. Her writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Historical Review, Radical History Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. Greenidge is interviewed by BIO member Jennifer Skoog.