Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a Duke Univerity-trained historian of the African-American experience and the law. She is also the senior editor at Rewire News. A resident of North Carolina, her work has appeared in American Prospect, Dissent, EBONY.com and Rolling Stone, among other publications. She is also a member of Echoing Ida, a Black women's writing collective. Follow her on Twitter @CynthiaGreenlee