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• Bio: Kendra Boyd is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden whose scholarship focuses on Black business and economics, racial capitalism, and urban history. Her book Freedom Enterprise: Racial Capitalism and Black Entrepreneurship in Detroit was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2025. She received the Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize in 2021 for her research on Black businesswomen and co-edited the book Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, which won the 2022 Author Award from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance. Boyd has been a Public Humanities Fellow at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities and a faculty fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. She is currently working on a book project that examines Black women-led cooperative grocery stores during the Black Power era.