Latif A. Tarik graduated from Howard University and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in African Diaspora History. He works as an Associate Professor of History and Director of University Honors at Elizabeth City State University. His publications include journal articles, book chapters, and digital humanities. His academic research interests are radical protest movements, African Diaspora communities, history and popular culture, public history, and African centered scholarship.

Tarik’s publications as a contributing writer are Race and Ethnicity in America: From Pre-contact to the Present (Volumes 1-4), African Religions: Beliefs and Practices through History, Islam and the Black Experience African American history reconsidered, Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, “Travel Notes: Pan Africanism (Re)Visited: From Sankofa to Afrofuturism—Summary of the 2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival” and chief editor of the course reader Black Freedom Struggles: Africana Reader (Kendall Hunt. Latif likes all things that are Afrofuturistic and graphic novels.