Alexis Clark

Alexis Clark is a journalist and author focused on race, culture, and politics during World War II and the Civil Rights era. Her current projects explore historical and contemporary issues of racial justice, poverty, and food insecurity. Clark will expand her research on the experiences of Black American World War II soldiers, focusing especially on mixed-race children known as “Brown Babies” fathered by Black G.I.s and white European women in France.

In Paris, she will explore French archives and connect with WWII scholars to deepen understanding of these overlooked histories and veterans’ struggles with segregation.