Media/Videos

Selected op-eds and essays, interviews and features, and talk/videos.

Featured

Newly Declassified Records Suggest Parents Collaborated With the FBI to Spy on Their Rebellious Teens During the 1960s

As high school students across the U.S. embraced political activism, adults turned to the authorities to shield their sons and daughters from radical influences

Smithsonian Magazine • November 2025

Selected Articles

Youth Activism

“The Forgotten History of High School Student Activism,” Time, March 27, 2025, https://time.com/7266632/history-high-school-student-activism/

“The Corn Cob Curtain Controversy in Indianapolis, 1971-1975,” Untold Indiana, February 10, 2022, https://blog.history.in.gov/the-corn-cob-curtain-controversy-in-indianapolis-1971-1975/

“The Legacy of Berkeley High School’s Black Student Union,” Black Perspectives, Aug. 14, 2018, https://www.aaihs.org/the-legacy-of-berkeley-high-schools-black-student-union-2/

“Why Do the Media Ignore High School Activism,” Al Jazeera America, Jan. 2, 2016, http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/1/why-does-the-media-ignore-high-school-activism.html

Online Misogyny

“Black Manosphere Glossary,” Medium, March 4, 2020, https://medium.com/swlh/black-manosphere-glossary-e87aa9900cd0

“The Black Manosphere is not an Ally to Black Women,” Level, March 2, 2020, https://level.medium.com/the-black-manosphere-is-the-hate-group-you-never-heard-of-5b8bbc3fe89c

“Men of color are creating their own manospheres, & their misogynistic violence is going ignored,” RaceBaitr, June 19, 2019, https://racebaitr.com/2019/06/18/men-of-color-are-creating-their-own-manospheres-their-misogynistic-violence-is-going-ignored/

“It’s not just white incels. We need to talk about the Black Manosphere, too,” Black Youth Project, December 28, 2018, https://blackyouthproject.com/its-not-just-white-incels-we-need-to-talk-about-the-black-manosphere-too/

Race/Ethnicity

“Latinx Narratives on Police Brutality, Respectability Politics, and Historical Erasure,” The Latinx Project, June 4, 2021, https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/latinx-narratives-on-police-brutality-respectability-politics-and-historical-erasure

“How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos,” Black Perspectives, July 25, 2018, https://www.aaihs.org/how-african-american-activists-are-influencing-latinos/

Featured Interviews

NPR Disrupted — Interviewed on teen activism. Listen
The Atlantic — Interviewed on student movements. Read
Elle Magazine — Interviewed on the Black Manosphere. Read
WKYC — Segment on Black History Month. Watch

Other Interviews →

“The best representatives of youth dissent? High school activists! with Aaron Fountain,” American Campus Podcast, December 21, 2025, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-representatives-of-youth-dissent-high/id1772749477?i=1000742192103

“How high school student activists push for change, from present to past,” NPR’s Disrupted, May 29, 2025, https://www.ctpublic.org/show/disrupted/2025-05-30/how-high-school-student-activists-push-for-change-from-present-to-past

Eamon Whalen, “The Men Fight Back,” Mother Jones, June 15, 2023, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/after-metoo-andrew-tate-jordan-peterson-influencers-men-fight-back/

Grant Segall, “Groundbreaking Cleveland Civil Rights Trail adds more sites, celebrates civil rights movement here,” The Land, February 14, 2023, https://thelandcle.org/stories/groundbreaking-cleveland-civil-rights-trail-adds-more-sites-celebrates-civil-rights-movement-here/

Susan Glaser, “Take a tour of Cleveland’s new African American Civil Rights Trail, from Carl Stokes to the Ludlow Community Association,” Plain Dealer, February 3, 2023, https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/take-a-tour-of-clevelands-new-african-american-civil-rights-trail-from-carl-stokes-to-the-ludlow-community-association.html

“Author provides perspective on anniversary of Ukraine invasion,” Ideastream Public Media, February 22, 2023, https://www.ideastream.org/show/sound-of-ideas/2023-02-22/author-provides-perspective-on-anniversary-of-ukraine-invasion

“Celebrating History through Restoration,” February 1, 2023, WKYC Good Company, https://www.wkyc.com/video/entertainment/television/good-company/celebrating-history-through-restoration/95-45c7d56a-74c0-416f-a8db-0be313ff984c

“Understanding the (Black) Manosphere,” F.D Signifier, August 24, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upt_ks61_70&t

Nicole Young, “My Brush With the Black Manosphere,” Elle Magazine, January 25, 2022, https://www.elle.com/life-love/opinion-feature/a38819237/black-manosphere-online-dating/

“How does anti-black racism keep police violence from being seen as a Latinx issue?” Latinxperts, July 9, 2020, https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/latinxperts/podcast/episode-003-how-does-anti-black-racism-keep-police-violence-from-being-seen-as-a-latinx-issue/

Alia Wong, “The Parkland Students Aren’t Going Away,” The Atlantic, Feb. 24, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/02/the-parkland-students-arent-going-away/554159/

“On the bonds and boundaries between African American and Latino political activism,” This Is Hell! July 29, 2017, https://thisishell.com/interviews/963-aaron-fountain

“History of Latino High School Activism” Latino Media Collective, May 29, 2017, https://latinomediacollective.com/2017/05/29/dec-9th-2016-history-of-latino-high-school-student-activism/

Natalie Delgadillo, “The Forgotten History of Latino Riots,” CityLab, April 11, 2017, https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/04/the-forgotten-history-of-latino-riots/522570/

Videos

The Black Church in Cleveland

The Hough Uprising | Cleveland African American Civil Rights Trail