Dr. Carol Swain is the host of the podcast “Be the People” and an author or credited editor of nine books, one of which (“Black Faces: Black Interests”) has won three national awards. Another of her books, “The New White Nationalism in America,” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She is a former university professor of political science and law at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, and a nationally known political commentator who has appeared on Fox News, ABC Headline News, CNN, BBC Radio and NPR, among other outlets.

Dr. Swain was a Nashville mayoral candidate in 2018 and 2019. Her opinion pieces have been published in the likes of The New York Times, USA Today, CNN Online, the Epoch Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.