- National Association of Black Journalists, Salute to Excellence Award, First
Prize for a Television Feature News-Story, August, 2000. "The Pea IslandStory."
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for College and
University Faculty Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research,Harvard University, 1999. "The Civil Rights Movement: History andConsequences."
- Chancellor’s Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship, Afro-American Studies and
Research Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-98.
- Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard
Wright Foundation, Fairfax, VA, 1994.
- Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship, Munson Institute of American Maritime
Studies, Mystic, CT, 1993.