Dr. Clarence Lusane is Professor and former chair of Howard University's Department of Political Science, and is currently the director of its International Affairs program. Appointed by the U.S. State Department and the Council of Europe in 2022 to be the U.S. "Independent Expert" to the Council's European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance, he held that position until 2025. He is a former Commissioner on the DC Commission on African American Affairs. His most recent book is Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy (City Lights 2022). Previously published titles include: The Black History of the White House (City Lights, 2011), which Lusane presented at the White House on two occasions; Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century; among others. His forthcoming book, Trumping While Black: African Americans, Black MAGA, and the Danger of Racial Authoritarianism, will be published in 2027. Dr. Lusane lives in Washington, DC.