Peniel E. Joseph holds the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and is professor of history and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. The author and editor of six books on African American history, he is a frequent national commentator on issues of race, civil rights, and democracy and a contributing op-ed columnist for CNN.com. His most recent book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., has been named one of the “100 Must Read Books of 2020″ by Time magazine.