Brian P. Jones is an American educator, scholar, activist, actor, and the author of Black History Is for Everyone. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools of The New York Public Library, and as the associate director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where he was also a scholar in residence. Jones earned a PhD in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center and has contributed to several books on issues of racism, inequality, and Black education history, most recently to Black Lives Matter At School: An Uprising for Educational Justice. His first book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History, won the 2023 Nonfiction Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.