Wayne Dawkins' latest project covers the lives of two sports journalists, Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, and how their reporting in Baltimore's Afro-American and the Pittsburgh Courier, respectively, pushed for desegregation in baseball in the 1930s and 1940s. Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo That Desegregated American Sports, the latest entry in Routledge's Historical Americans series, is available on July 17 and can be purchased directly from Routledge for a 20 percent discount using code AFLY02.

Wayne Dawkins is a professor of practice in multimedia journalism at Morgan State University. Before joining academia, Dawkins worked at newspapers throughout the Northeast and Midwest.