Jeffrey B. Leak is an associate professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of the New South in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte. His biography of Black Arts Movement figure Henry Dumas, Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas, was published this year. He’s also a deacon at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
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