Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, PhD, examines the various ways in which African Americans sought personal, political, and economic freedoms in the United States from 1619 to present day. As an internationally recognized historian, she has worked with the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden; Time magazine; Hulu network; the National Park Service and National Park Foundation; the Coretta Scott King Estate; and IPM, the exclusive licensor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Estate. She is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Morehouse College.