He is past president of the American Journalism Historians Association, a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Standing Committee on Teaching and former chair of the Standing Committee on Research. His research interest center on African-American press history, specifically the Black Press during the first half of the 20th Century. He has published articles on history, cross-cultural journalism education and media management in several journals including American Journalism, Journalism History, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator,Journalism History and Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. He is currently working on a book project focusing the impact African American newspaper publishers had on their communities and the national agenda during World War II.