She appears regularly on the Emmy Award-winning show Basic Black, Boston’s long-running television program devoted to African-American themes, airing weekly on WGBH-TV. Professor McLarin is the author of four books, including Jump at the Sun, which was chosen as a 2007 Fiction Honor Book by both the Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her new memoir, Divorce Dog, was published last year.