V Efua Prince‘s work often takes an interdisciplinary form as history, poetry, drama, and performance, to transform the history of black women into political art. The central questions guiding her research seek to unpack the dynamics of black family life. Prince’s screenplay is set against the backdrop of post-Civil Rights Era Washington, DC at the funeral of a man, revealing the fractured offspring produced by his own enduring love. Her current work represents a refinement of themes she has been considering for more than 20 years. She is the author of Kin: Practically True Stories (2024) and the co-author of Crazy As Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History (2024) with Hoke Glover III. Prince was awarded a 2023-2024 Wayne State University Humanities Center Faculty Fellow to complete her manuscript titled, Laundry, which explores laundry as metonymy, in order to understand critical aspects of African American women’s historical relationship to home, family, work, and industry. Prince is a professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature and has served as a director of Black Studies at Allegheny College, the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Hampton University, a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, and a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Center.