Dr. Cynthia Greenlee

Senior Editor

Dr. Cynthia Greenlee was a senior editor for Rewire.News, where she edited opinion pieces and cultural commentary, and was part of the Appalachian Reporting Project staff team. 

Based in Durham, North Carolina, Cynthia is a writer and historian. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in history from Duke University.

Loving Day, Juneteenth, and the Right to Family

Dr. Cynthia Greenlee

The anniversary of the Loving case on June 12 and Juneteenth on the 19th should remind us that, within the African American freedom struggle and broader movements for equality, there has always been a struggle to determine the right to marry, select an intimate partner of one’s choice, and to form the families that we want.

And Still She Wrote: Remembering Maya Angelou

Dr. Cynthia Greenlee

Dr. Maya Angelou’s life could not be contained by a single autobiography, so she wrote six, making the audacious claim that she—as a Black woman reared in the segregated South—was fully human and a worthy historical subject who needed no outside narrator to tell or validate her story.