His book, A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights (2010) is an analytical intellectual history, which traces how Randolph’s life and career shaped and were shaped by monumental events, ideas, and developments of the twentieth century and demonstrates that Randolph’s determination to improve the lives of black workers fundamentally affected core strategies and tactics of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His current book project examines the small but significant cohort of West Indian radicals in Harlem known as the African Blood Brotherhood that migrated into the American Communist Party in the 1920s.