He writes about national security, U.S.-Russia relations and black progressive politics for publications that include the Washington Post, The New Republic, The Daily Beast. As a Fulbright Scholar, in Ukraine, he studied the nation’s black diaspora population and its relationship to communism, as well as U.S. Soviet relations. He has an M.S. in News-Editorial Journalism and an M.A. in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Follow him on Twitter @Russian_Starr.