Current Research: General, Co-Editor, Kentucky African American Encyclopedia and a booklength study on the history of African Americans in Kentucky.

Courses Taught: Race and Sports; Civil Rights Movement in the US Since 1930; African American Urban History, Race Relations; Readings in African American History; Kentucky African American Experience

• A Black Educator in the Segregated South: The Life and Times of Rufus B. Atwood, 1897-1983 (1994)
• Editor, Black America Series: Lexington, Kentucky (2001)
• Co-Editor, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Adovcate of the Social Gospel September 1948-1963, Volume VI (2007)