Tanisha C Ford

Tanisha C. Ford is a pop culture expert and star academic. A Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, she has written for the New York Times , ELLE.com, the Atlantic , the Root , and featured on NPR, among other places. Ford is the author of Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful, and Liberated Threads , which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She lives in Harlem.

Tanisha C. Ford is a pop culture expert and star academic. A Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, she has written for the New York Times , ELLE.com, the Atlantic , the Root , and featured on NPR, among other places. Ford is the author of Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is Beautiful, and Liberated Threads , which won the 2016 Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for best book on civil rights history. She lives in Harlem. See less