She teaches, writes, and researches in the following areas: African American Religion, African American and Diaspora Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Black British and U.S. Black Cultural Studies. She is the author of several essays and is currently at work on two projects: An edited volume entitled Womanist/Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’sCultural Productions, co-authored with Rhon S. Manigault-Bryant and Carol B. Duncan, and her first single authored monograph, Loosing the Yoke: Black Feminist Readings on Black Religion and Black Popular Culture. She is co-founder, along with Hortense Spillers, of The Feminist Wire, a feminist news site made up of over 25 scholar/activists, founded in 2010, with a weekly readership of 50,000-70,000 unique visitors per week and over one million per year.