Cynthia R. Greenlee, Ph.D., is a historian, writer, and journalist based
in Durham, North Carolina. The granddaughter of farmers, she has
aspirations to grow a good crop of winter wheat some day, and she
writes mostly about race, Southern and African-American history, food,
and reproductive health. She works as the senior editor at the online
publication Rewire.News. You can follow her on Twitter
@CynthiaGreenlee.