Garrett Felber is a scholar of 20th century African American history at University of Michigan in the American Culture Department. His scholarship has been published in Journal of African American History, South African Music Studies, and SOULS. He has also contributed The Guardian,The Marshall Project, Viewpoint Magazine. He was senior research adviser on the Malcolm X Project at the Center for Contemporary Black History and is co-author of The Portable Malcolm X Reader with Manning Marable. In 2014, he founded the Black History Study Group at the Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, OR.