Marcus Board Jr.

Marcus Board Jr., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University in Washington D.C. and author of Invisible Weapons (Oxford 2022). His research engages social movements, radical Black feminist theories of power, and public opinion. Marcus’ community work has grown over the past twenty years, building politically and personally connected communities while advocating for youth empowerment, abolition, and systemic accountability.

Dr. Board is currently working on The Democracy Gap: Political Violence and Pluralism at the Margins. He argues that the solution to U.S. fascism is pluralism at the margins – understanding politics through ethical community building that rejects physical violence as a method of political persuasion. This aligns with DuBois’ work in Black Reconstruction, King in Where Do We Go From Here?, and is made real in Black politics. Thus, this work focuses on six belief systems in Black politics: abolition, feminism, socialism, neoliberalism, nationalism, and conservatism.

Forthcoming scholarship includes submitted book chapters on generational differences in Black movement politics, Black Political Psychology (co-author), and celebrity grifting in politics. And one article under review focuses on the undemocratic impact of uncontentious politics.