David J. Leonard is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of the just released
After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness (SUNY Press) as we as several other works. Leonard is a regular contributor to NewBlackMan, layupline, Feminist Wire, and Urban Cusp. He is frequent contributor to
Ebony,
Slam, and
racialicious as well as a past contributor to
Loop21,
The Nation and
The Starting Five. He blogs at
No Tsuris. Follow him on Twitter
@drdavidjleonard.