Caleb Gayle is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and a professor at Northeastern University. His latest book “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State” (Penguin Random House) made the 2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction. It tells the true story of a Black politician, Edward McCabe, and the thousands of other Black people who tried to make Oklahoma into a Black state.
Gayle is also the author of “We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power” (Riverhead Books, 2022), which offers a narrative account of how many Black Native Americans were divided and marginalized by white supremacy in America.
