LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. She is the author of Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women (Duke University Press, 2014), and co-author of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Tamura A. Lomax and Carol B. Duncan. Occasionally, you can find her adding colorful, critical, commentary to the Twitter universe via @DoctorRMB.